THE story of the Plague of Marseilles in I720-I has been vividly described by Gaffarel and Duranty2 and the part played by the administration, the faculty of medicine, the Church, the port officials and other public bodies has been carefully and sympathetically assessed. There are, however, many aspects of this epidemic which deserve further consideration. One is the research of Professor Anton...

3,510 ; 36 attacks and 23 deaths occurred there. I may note here that the speedy termination of the plague epidemic at Pachamba was principally due to the activity of the vigilance committee formed there, which induced generally the plague-infected families to depart from the town at the shortest notice. Though the plan was good for Pachamba, it probably helped to a certain extent the spread of...

Plague (Yersinia pestis infection) is a highly virulent rodent disease that persists in many natural ecosystems. The black rat (Rattus rattus) is the main host involved in the plague focus of the central highlands of Madagascar. Black rat populations from this area are highly resistant to plague, whereas those from areas in which the disease is absent (low altitude zones of Madagascar) are susc...

Outbreaks of plague in wildlife are sporadic and spatially dispersed, and they depend on coincidence of susceptible hosts, flea vectors, the plague bacterium (Yersinia pestis), and environmental factors that support pathogen transmission. We fit spatial models of plague outbreaks to a long-term data set (1981–2005) of towns of black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) on the shortgrass s...

BACKGROUND Although the linkage between climate change and plague transmission has been proposed in previous studies, the dominant approach has been to address the linkage with traditional statistical methods, while the possible non-linearity, non-stationarity and low frequency domain of the linkage has not been fully considered. We seek to address the above issue by investigating plague transm...

BACKGROUND Plague, a zoonosis caused by Yersinia pestis, is found in Asia and the Americas, but predominantly in Africa, with the island of Madagascar reporting almost one third of human cases worldwide. Plague's occurrence is affected by local climate factors which in turn are influenced by large-scale climate phenomena such as the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO). The effects of ENSO on re...

tentative synthesis of the results of the researches on plague initiated in 1941 with georges blanc in morocco, carried on in the persian kurdistan since 1947 then in india, in syria, in turkey, in irak and in java. new acquisitions on the epidemization of human bubo-septicemic plague, discovery of the mode of spread of the rural plague, of the reasons of the seasonal nature of the disease unde...

The Anti-plague system experienced a dramatic expansion in Soviet times. From the dozen facilities created in the Russian Empire, it grew during the Soviet period to include over 100 facilities engaged in public health activities as well as BW-related work. This article describes how this highly responsive public health system, created to respond to natural outbreaks of dangerous diseases, beca...

Among all of the industrialized countries, the United States has the highest infant mortality rate. Racial and ethnic disparities continue to plague the United States with a disproportionally high rate of infant death. Furthermore, racial disparities among infant and neonatal mortality rates remain a chronic health problem in the United States. These risks are based on the geographical variatio...

Plague in Brazil is poorly known and now rarely seen, so studies of its ecology are difficult. We used ecological niche models of historical (1966-present) records of human plague cases across northeastern Brazil to assess hypotheses regarding environmental correlates of plague occurrences across the region. Results indicate that the apparently focal distribution of plague in northeastern Brazi...