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7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

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Also Known As	Pasteurella pestis • Bacillus pestis

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Kitasato Shibasaburo, c. 1928.

Kitasato Shibasaburo

Japanese physician and bacteriologist

Yersin, Alexandre

Alexandre Yersin

French bacteriologist