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Plague vaccine is a vaccine used against Yersinia pestis to prevent the plague. [1] Inactivated bacterial vaccines have been used since 1890 but are less effective against the pneumonic plague , so live, attenuated vaccines and recombinant protein vaccines have been developed to prevent the disease.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 December 2024. Russian-French microbiologist (1856–1930) Waldemar Mordechai Haffkine Born 15 March 1856 (1856-03-15) Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (now Odesa, Ukraine) Died 26 October 1930 (1930-10-27) (aged 74) Lausanne, Switzerland Citizenship Russian Empire France (later) British ...
On March 11, Kinyoun's lab presented its results. Two guinea pigs and one rat died after being exposed to samples from the first victim, proving the plague was indeed in Chinatown. [17] [18] On March 13, another lab animal, a monkey who was exposed to the plague, died. All the dead animals tested positive for the plague bacteria. [19]
The Black Death ravaged much of the Islamic world. [55] Plague was present in at least one location in the Islamic world virtually every year between 1500 and 1850. [56] Plague repeatedly struck the cities of North Africa. Algiers lost 30,000–50,000 to it in 1620–1621, and again in 1654–1657, 1665, 1691, and 1740–1742. [57]
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.
The Mongol Empire established commercial and political connections between the Eastern and Western areas of the world, through the most mobile army ever seen. The armies, composed of the most rapidly moving travelers who had ever moved between the steppes of East Asia (where bubonic plague was and remains endemic among small rodents), managed to keep the chain of infection without a break ...
The White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man, and Society. Rutgers University Press. Debus, Allen G. (2001). Chemistry and Medical Debate: Van Helmont to Boerhaave. Science History Publications. ISBN 978-0881352924. Elvin, Mark; Cuirong Liu; Tsʻui-jung Liu (1998). Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese History. Cambridge University Press.
Ignaz Semmelweis Semmelweis, aged 42 in 1860, photograph by Borsos and Doctor Born Semmelweis Ignác Fülöp (1818-07-01) 1 July 1818 Buda, Hungary, Austrian Empire (now Budapest, Hungary) Died 13 August 1865 (1865-08-13) (aged 47) Oberdöbling, Austrian Empire (now Vienna, Austria) Citizenship Kingdom of Hungary Alma mater University of Vienna Known for Introducing hand disinfection standards ...