Look out Ebola making a nasty return. 79 dead in West Africa in the last few weeks.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-26825869
I'll keep it contained in one post...
As of 2nd April - 95 deaths.
As of 4th April - 97 deaths.
As of 6th April - 99 deaths
Looks like the WHO and MSF are halting it. Well done so far... but it will return...
As of 3rd May - 157 deaths, so it's still going...
5th May - 164
14th May - 166
23rd May - 183
27th May - 200
2nd June - 208
5th June - 231
10th June - 252 deaths.
Ditto 17th June - 337 deaths.
23rd July - 672 deaths. That's doubled in the space of the month.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27953155
Well, health care has improved a bit since then. Mind you, it is important to note that what we think of Black Death was really a whole host of different plagues all at once - bubonic, hemorrhagic, and several others, alongside the usual ails of the time, yer choleras and their pals. It was a massive viral soup which it infested into.
But I suppose it wouldn't help your frame of mind to know that not only does Black Death (well, bubonic) have around 15 victims a year in the USA currently(its far more common in Asia and Africa), there are signs of it becoming drug-resistant in places. But it has a 75% or there abouts mortality rate.
The big disgrace in all of this is that there are almost certainly people in Africa who are dead now from this outbreak who should be alive if someone had put human need over profit. Theres been drugs believed to aide Ebola since at least 2004, and I strongly suspect since 1975 (when the European researcher infected with it the next year was cured!). As soon as it manages to infect a rich European or American, bet your bottom dollar a cure is "miraculously" found.