A New Mexico man died after being hospitalized for bubonic plague in the state's first death from the disease since 2020, health officials reported.
Mar 13, 2024
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Officials in central Oregon this week reported a case of bubonic plague in a resident who likely got the disease from a sick pet cat.
Feb 13, 2024
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Public health officials in Oregon have reported a case of bubonic plague in a local resident who they said likely contracted it from a pet cat.
Feb 13, 2024
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When London faced the bubonic plague in 1665, many people desperately sought a way to protect themselves and their loved ones from getting sick. One widely adopted method consisted of mixing two small cloves of garlic in ...
Aug 31, 2023
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This study was led by Dr. Ruifu Yang, Dr. Zongmin Du (State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology) and Dr. Fan Bai (Biomedical Pioneering Innovation Center, School ...
Sep 16, 2022
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With the spread of monkeypox across the world coming hot on the heels of COVID-19, there are fears that increasing outbreaks of diseases that jump from animals to humans could spark another pandemic.
Jun 10, 2022
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Fearing disease from a foreign country, public health officials clamped down on travel and trade, mandating lengthy quarantines. These measures dampened tourism, drove up the price of goods and slowed down their distribution.
May 18, 2022
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Africa needs, and is ready for, nothing short of a new public health order, with systems better able to prepare for and respond to the next health threat. Having engaged in outbreak response, research, and capacity development ...
Jan 19, 2022
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Bubonic plague may not seem like a significant problem in the world today. While it killed millions of people in Europe in the Middle Ages and was known as the "black death," it mostly has faded from public concern.
Nov 2, 2021
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An undergraduate history student from the University of Bristol has uncovered previously unknown details about one of the worst-named, but possibly most successful, quarantine hospitals in English history: Bristol's "Forlorn ...
Sep 23, 2021
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