Spread of Plague by Respiratory Droplets or Ectoparasites

How Does Plague Spread

Methods of the Spread of Plague

clear that there was little or no danger in attending on plague cases in well-built, clean hospitals, but the sad death of Major Manser, i.m.s., and Nurse MacDougall soon showed the intense contagiousness of the pneumonic form. The sputum is known to be a virulent culture of plague bacilli and its spread on floor, walls, clothes, etc,, is easily understood, especially in Native houses, where th...

The metabolic syndrome: a modern plague spread by modern technology.

Malnutrition and infectious disease represent the most common health threats facing the developing world. However, increasing technological developments and the expansion of western culture have contributed to the increasing prevalence of the metabolic syndrome. The epidemiologic significance and potential costs to governmental health care systems of an increasing incidence of metabolic syndrom...

Dynamics of infectious disease transmission by inhalable respiratory droplets.

Transmission of respiratory infectious diseases in humans, for instance influenza, occurs by several modes. Respiratory droplets provide a vector of transmission of an infectious pathogen that may contribute to different transmission modes. An epidemiological model incorporating the dynamics of inhalable respiratory droplets is developed to assess their relevance in the infectious process. Inha...

A Decade of Plague in Mahajanga, Madagascar: Insights into the Global Maritime Spread of Pandemic Plague

UNLABELLED A cluster of human plague cases occurred in the seaport city of Mahajanga, Madagascar, from 1991 to 1999 following 62 years with no evidence of plague, which offered insights into plague pathogen dynamics in an urban environment. We analyzed a set of 44 Mahajanga isolates from this 9-year outbreak, as well as an additional 218 Malagasy isolates from the highland foci. We sequenced th...