In the recent Greek ages the most devastating epidemics were plague, smallpox, leprosy and cholera. In 1816 plague struck the Ionian and Aegean Islands, mainland Greece, Constantinople and Smyrna. The Venetians ruling the Ionian Islands effectively combated plague in contrast to the Ottomans ruling all other regions. In 1922, plague appeared in Patras refugees who were expelled by the Turks fro...

The yellow-legged hornet, Vespa velutina nigrithorax, is an invasive species that causing numerous ecological and economic problems, particularly for beekeepers, whose apiaries are seriously affected by hornet predation. effects may be intensified if workers from different colonies preying upon bees the same apiary. Therefore, to determine whether such could occur, we sampled hornets found with...

Hansen's disease is considered to be one of the well-known infections which upset serological tests for syphilis in patients in whom there has been no past or current treponemal infection. The reason why lepers are biological false positive (B.F.P.) reactors and why this failure in the specificity of lipoidal reactions occurs remains obscure. The frequency of false positive reactions is said to...