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Which disease was once a mass killer but is now treated with antibiotics?
APlague
BDengue
CPolio
DMeasles
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Plague
Antibiotics improved treatment of bacterial diseases such as plague, whooping cough, diphtheria and leprosy.
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