Plague transmission may have begun a century before the Black Death, study shows
Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before ...
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Plague transmission may have begun a century before the Black Death, study shows
Evidence from 13 th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before the Black Death, a new study shows. Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that ...
The Black Death was spread by Mongol troops in the Middle East a century before it wiped out half of Britons in the 1300s, new study suggests
New research has found that the plague may actually have caused milder outbreaks in the Middle East a century before it ...
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Republicans Are Destroying Government Agencies By Making Sure No One Works There
The World Health Organization was the result of a concern for global health dating back to the mid-19th century and the ongoing fight against the bubonic plague. Its roots go back to the first ...
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What Is Gravity, and How Does It Work?
Newton had come home to stay when his university closed down due to a bout of bubonic plague, and he was looking ... unnecessary transmission mechanism when the inverse-square law modeled ...
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Transmission potential of primary pneumonic plague: time inhomogeneous evaluation based on historical documents of the transmission network
Background: The transmission potential of primary pneumonic plague, caused by Yersinia pestis, is one of the key epidemiological determinants of a potential biological weapon, and requires ...
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Curse of the bamboo flower
The bubonic plague epidemic reached Hong Kong from southern China in ... He was also able to show that the pathogen was present in rodents, identifying a means of transmission. But what does this have ...