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Richard Pearson Strong (1872–1948) was a tropical medicine professor at Harvard who did significant work on plague, cholera, bacillary dysentery and other diseases. He was the first professor of tropical medicine at Harvard, where he critically infected 24 unknowing victims with cholera, causing 13 of their deaths.
Death caused by plague Malcolm Casadaban (12 August 1949 – 13 September 2009) was associate professor of molecular genetics, cell biology and microbiology at the University of Chicago . [ 1 ] Casadaban died following an accidental laboratory exposure to an attenuated strain of Yersinia pestis , a bacterium that causes plague .
He was convicted on December 1, 2003 of 47 of the 69 charges filed against him. Of the convictions, three were for improper shipment of plague samples to research collaborators in Tanzania and forty-four were related to what prosecutors called "shadow contracts" for his research at Texas Tech, whereby "part of the payment for clinical trials went directly to Dr. Butler instead of through ...
Its two sequels, Plague War and Plague Zone, deal with a cure that allows return to an environment that suffered ecological collapse due to massive increases in insects and reptiles. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006) is an apocalyptic horror novel by Max Brooks. The book is a collection of individual accounts of desperate ...
Plague of 698–701 (part of first plague pandemic) 698–701 Byzantine Empire, West Asia, Syria, Mesopotamia: Bubonic plague: Unknown [47] 735–737 Japanese smallpox epidemic: 735–737 Japan Smallpox: 2 million (approx. 1 ⁄ 3 of Japanese population) [15] [48] Plague of 746–747 (part of first plague pandemic) 746–747 Byzantine Empire ...
Title page of Kircher's Scrutinium Physico-Medicum. Scrutinium Physico-Medicum Contagiosae Luis, Quae Pestis Dicitur (A Physico-Medical Examination of the Contagious Pestilence Called the Plague) is a 1658 work by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher, containing his observations and theories about the bubonic plague that struck Rome in the summer of 1656.
In 2001 she was appointed professor of history at Arizona State University. From December 2019 onwards, she has been continuing her work as an independent scholar. Green edited the first volume of the Journal, The Medieval Globe, in 2015 when the journal launched, and she is on the editorial board. [7]
Wu Lien-teh (Chinese: 伍連德; pinyin: Wǔ Liándé; Jyutping: Ng 5 Lin 4 Dak 1; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gó͘ Liân-tek; Goh Lean Tuck and Ng Leen Tuck in Minnan and Cantonese transliteration respectively; 10 March 1879 – 21 January 1960) was a Malayan physician renowned for his work in public health, particularly the Manchurian plague of 1910–11.