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The bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin (1863-1943) discovered the bacterial agent responsible for the bubonic plague (aka Black Death) in 1894. In his honor the organism is named Yersinia pestis. The organism was also independently identified in Japan that same year by Kitasato Shibasaburo.

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