Currently, the World Health Organization (WHO) is using the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) to help limit the spread of the plague and hopefully avoid the emergence of a new epidemic (Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), 2016). GOARN, a partnership of existing institutions (scientific, laboratory, technical, etc.), brings together the resources needed to identify, authenticate and respond to epidemics, such as the Black Death (Global Outbreak). Alert and Response Network (GOARN),