Plague is found on every continent, but currently, plague is most prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar. More than 90 percent of current reported cases are found there, according to a review inPLOS Medicine. More than 1,000cases of plaguehave been reported in the United States in t...
(Hebrew Bible) tells of a disease visited upon the Philistines that may have been bubonic plague. The Iliad describes the surgeon Machaon treating Menaleus’ arrow wound. Egyptian physicians described the host reaction to wounds (suppuration, inflammation) as early as the third millennium BC and ...
Where: The first reported cases of the Spanish Flu came out of the United States. The disease spread quickly throughout Europe and, subsequently, around the world. How It Was Handled: In some parts of the United States, as the disease spread and mortalities increased, public health offic...
COVID-19 has been called the modern plague. COVID vs. the Black Death, also known as the bubonic plague, is a comparison worth pondering, given COVID-19’s devastating effect on the world. But the Black Death was the most lethal pandemic in human history, killing an estimated 75 million...
Where: The first reported cases of the Spanish Flu came out of the United States. The disease spread quickly throughout Europe and, subsequently, around the world. How It Was Handled: In some parts of the United States, as the disease spread and mortalities increased, public health offic...
it was not just clear that this had happened, but that scrapie may have made an inter-species jump to become BSE in cows. If that was true, then it was equally possible that a similar leap could occur between cows and humans, particularly when cases of 'new variant' CJD started to em...
Once the patient had been correctly diagnosed he was transferred to a smallpox isolation unit, but by then it was too late: some days later, new cases of the viral disease appeared quite unexpectedly on all three floors of the hospital (Fig. 1a). None of these new smallpox cases had ...
Early European scientists and physicians were intertwined with the social environment that created classifications and hierarchies of skin-color–based races, which were reinforced by prevailing political systems that supported colonial economic structures and, in many cases, chattel slavery. Even after ...
When those practices were relaxed, cases went back up. “That second hump was never as high as the first hump, but they went up, nevertheless, and then, they pulled back again, and the cases went down,” said Markel, director of the Center for the History of Medicine. ...
In “Sing a Song of Sixpence” the blackbird pecks off the nurse’s nose! And “Ring Around the Rosy” was about the bubonic plague. “Rosy” referred to the rash. “We all fall down” referred to the enormous death rate. (click on this link to read more) ...