Pneumonic plague has killed 60 miners in DR of Congo.

It´s the deadliest form of the plague, killing without proper care about 90% of those infected, when the bubonic plague kills about 60%. When the Black Death ravaged Europe in 1346-53 - and North Africa, Middle East, India and China from maybe 1330s to 1350s, which is often forgotten fact - both the bubonic plague and the pneumonic plague were involved. In Europe, about 33-70% of the population died - the number varied, possibly because bubonic plague was more common in some areas and the pneumonic plague on other areas - except in the most northern parts, but maybe the hardest hitten was North Africa. Some scholars have claimed that the area, important culturally, politically and economically from the Antique to the late Middle Age, has never recovered from the ravages of the plague.