RAT PLAGUE.

Non-Plague Rat Mortality

The Outbreak of Rat-Plague in Suffolk and the Manchurian Epidemic of Human Plague

Ahout a year ago there appeared in the January number of " Public Health" an extremely interesting article by Dr. Pringle on the outbreak of rat-plague in Suffolk, interesting not only on account of the recorded facts with which it deals, but still more so on account of the largeness and the gravity of the future possibilities. The gravit}' of the possibilities depends upon the fact that it see...

Plague

Plague is a disease that has been present for thousands of years and described since the earliest medical accounts. It occurs today worldwide, and may present in a variety of clinical forms. Bubonic disease, pneumonic plague, and septicemic plague are seen in addition to a number of other less common manifestations. As an agent of bioterrorism,Yersinia pestis could pose an extreme threat if rel...

The plague

Albert Camus (1913-1960) was born in Algeria, which was then a French colonial possession. His father was killed in battle in World War I a year after Albert’s birth, leaving his family in poverty. Camus worked his way through the university of Algiers by doing odd jobs, but dropped out after a severe bout of tuberculosis. He then turned to journalism, writing for an anti-colonial newspaper in ...

Plague Control