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Abstract. We summarize the characteristics of 1,006 cases of human plague occurring in the United States over 113 years, beginning with the first documented case in 1900. Three distinct eras can be identified on the basis of the frequency, nature, and geographic distribution of cases.
15 maj 2024 · Most human cases in the United States are acquired in two regions: Northern New Mexico, northern Arizona, and southern Colorado. California, southern Oregon, and far western Nevada. Over 80% of United States plague cases have been the bubonic form.
1 sty 2015 · We summarize the characteristics of 1,006 cases of human plague occurring in the United States over 113 years, beginning with the first documented case in 1900. Three distinct eras can be ...
7 sie 2023 · In the United States, the risk of plague is highest in the southwestern states. Half of the cases occur in young people aged 12 to 45 years, and more commonly affects men and those engaging in outdoor activity.
The bubonic plague, the most common variant of the disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, raises egg-shaped swellings known as buboes near an afflicted person’s lymph nodes in the groin, underarm, and upper neck areas. Other symptoms include fever, nausea, vomiting, aching joints, and general malaise.
The scholarly study of the Black Death began in Europe in the nineteenth century with the development of modern history based on source-criticism and social science. However, most of the research on the Black Death has been performed in the last four decades of the twentieth century.
Overview of the Three Plague Pandemics 541 to ca. 1950 Bubonic plague is the inescapable reference point in any discussion of in-fectious diseases and their impact on society. In many respects plague rep-resented the worst imaginable catastrophe, thereby setting the standard by which other epidemics would be judged. In later centuries, when ...
