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Destruction of Rats and Prevention of Plague
The history of the plague epidemic at Giridih may be stated very briefly to be as follows:?The town of Pachamba, situated about 3 miles from Giridih, became infected at the end of July, 1904, by an infected man from Calcutta. A big and influential modi family became infected, and this family broke up and scattered to several places in the town of Giridih, and one went to Chaitadih within the E....
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Sir,?I trust that Colonel Dennys' article will not be allowed to "waste its sweetness on a desert air." This is a subject which requires wide ventilation. There must be very few of those who have sought to deal with plague infected areas who have not at times felt the utter hopelessness of coping with the disease by the methods at present in vogue. One may enumerate various hindrances to the su...
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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...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1969
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/221881a0