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Sierra Jane Downing, a 7-year-old Colorado girl, just survived a battle with a deadly disease that is extremely rare these days, but once wiped out more than a third of medieval Europe: The bubonic plague, or Black Death.. The girl was saved by a quick-thinking doctor at Denver's Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children.
The mortality rate of bubonic plague is 50 to 90 percent if not treated; the mortality rate is 15 percent when this condition is diagnosed and treated early.