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There's actually been plenty of outbreaks of the Bubonic Plague over the years. They reported that there was an outbreak of the exact same disease in Madagascar in Novemeber last year. I'll link you to the wikipedia page on the 1346-53 outbreak.This is the one I believe you are referencing.

As for the cure/cause...Kirasato and Yersin set the foundations for the cure, isolating what it was that caused it and in 1898 another fellow by the name of Simond described the transmission process of it. More can be read here, if you wanted to.

Albert Schatz's website has an article written in 1947 claiming Dr Meyer, who was Californian, had discovered the cure, but the most he could have actually done is finished off the work of the scientist before him.

So really, it was a joint effort spread over 50 years between a Japanese, a Swedish and a Californian.