Plague in Java, 1910–1912

A Historical Report of Plague Outbreak in Northwestern Iran, 1966

Plague is an endemic disease to the west of Iran and has frequently stricken this area over the last decades. In 1954, Pasteur Institute of Iran established a research station in the west of the country and since then has monitored the plague outbreaks as well as the disease status in rodents and carnivores by dispatching research teams to different villages and localities. We noticed that ther...

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...

Plague Outbreak in Libya, 2009, Unrelated to Plague in Algeria

After 25 years of no cases of plague, this disease recurred near Tobruk, Libya, in 2009. An epidemiologic investigation identified 5 confirmed cases. We determined ribotypes, Not1 restriction profiles, and IS100 and IS1541 hybridization patterns of strains isolated during this outbreak. We also analyzed strains isolated during the 2003 plague epidemic in Algeria to determine whether there were ...

Anti-Plague Vaccine in the Treatment of Plague

venous injections of iodine in this disease has been recognized by previous workers, I used it as a routine measure, giving injections containing from 2 to 1? grs. In spite of these injections most patients showed severe constitutional disturbances within 48 hours of commencing treatment, with delirium and restlessness. Severe asthenia would set in about the third day of treatment, and the prog...

Chemotherapy in Plague