Pneumonia was prevalent, the bubonic plague was endemic, and doctors were little more than optimistic quacks. |
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In addition to treating tuberculosis, streptomycin was effective against typhoid fever, cholera, bubonic plague and other diseases. |
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Its scientists work with the deadliest known disease agents, including bubonic plague, anthrax and the ebola virus. |
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Remarkably, he inoculated himself with pus from a suppurating bubo to fortify himself against bubonic plague. |
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Some researchers now believe that the bubonic plague, or Black Death, originated in the village where builders of Tutankhamun's tomb lived. |
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In all, tens of thousands, and perhaps as many 200,000, Chinese died of bubonic plague, cholera, anthrax and other diseases. |
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They are known carriers of several deadly diseases, among them the bubonic plague. |
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Getting your hair in the bleachy water will infect everyone with bubonic plague, whereas all other bodily orifice exposure and expulsion is quite alright. |
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He pointed to Galileo, whose discovery of the moons of Jupiter occurred during an outbreak of bubonic plague. |
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The bubonic plague typically presents two to eight days after exposure, with sudden onset of fever, chills, weakness, and acutely swollen lymph nodes called buboes. |
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Not since the bubonic plague of the 14th century has a single pathogen wreaked such havoc. |
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The Institute had been founded in 1900 in response to a critical need to produce serum against bubonic plague. |
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For example, fleas transmitted the bubonic plague between rodents and humans by carrying bacteria. |
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Comparison of the tobacco epidemic with the bubonic plague is perhaps appropriate given the role that rats have played in both epidemics. |
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More commonly advanced stages of bubonic plague will result in the presence of Y. pestis in the blood. |
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This figure does not include victims of actual biological warfare or the effects of diseases such as cholera, bubonic plague, and typhus upon civilians. |
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Rest assured that only on rare occasions do epidemics such as bubonic plague in India and diphtheria in Russia present a much more widespread threat. |
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In addition, it is believed to have about 5,000 tons of chemical and biological agents, including sarin, anthrax, smallpox and the bubonic plague. |
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Both pneumonic plague and bubonic plague are caused by the same organism. |
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Rodents cost billions of dollars in lost crops each year, and some are carriers of human diseases such as bubonic plague, typhus, and Hanta fever. |
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No vaccine currently is available for pneumonic or bubonic plague. |
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Eight hundred years after the Plague of Justinian, the bubonic plague returned to Europe. |
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Brown rats are sometimes mistakenly thought to be a major reservoir of bubonic plague, a possible cause of the Black Death. |
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However, Dorset was devastated by the bubonic plague in 1348 which arrived in Melcombe Regis on a ship from Gascony. |
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The Yersinia species of pathogens can cause the bubonic plague and serious gastrointestinal infections in humans. |
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No, it isn't anthrax or smallpox or bubonic plague or some other deadly germ brewed by bioterrorists. |
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American microbiologist who, along with Selman Waksman, discovered streptomycin, the first antibiotic that effectively treated a multitude of deadly diseases such as tuberculosis, typhoid, cholera, and bubonic plague. |
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The tularemia bacillus can be spread by deerfly bites, the bubonic plague bacillus by fleas, and the epidemic typhus rickettsia by the louse Pediculus. |
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From bubonic plague in the middle ages to bird flu or Sars in the 21st century, infectious diseases have spread horrifyingly fast in cities, where people live in close proximity and sometimes crowded together. |
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The Japanese experimented with the infectious agents for bubonic plague, anthrax, typhus, smallpox, yellow fever, tularemia, hepatitis, cholera, gas gangrene, and glanders, among others. |
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If bubonic plague is not treated the bacteria can spread through the bloodstream and infect the lungs, causing a secondary case of pneumonic plague. |
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The other is disease, particularly bubonic plague. |
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Last year, Madagascar reported 60 deaths from bubonic plague. |
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The funds will be used to buy, transport and distribute vaccines to combat the threat of epidemics such as cholera, diphtheria, tuberculosis, polio and even bubonic plague. |
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In addition to more common diseases like cholera and measles, rarer diseases such as the Marburg and Ebola viruses and bubonic plague continue to threaten children's lives. |
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First, a dreadful famine struck at the beginning of the 14th century, soon followed by an epidemic of bubonic plague which killed 40 percent of Europe's population. |
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In fact it is true that from 1295 to 1327 there were no epidemics of bubonic plague, but it is also true that, in the Middle Ages the word plague was used very loosely, generally referring to a myriad of epidemic illnesses. |
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Allowing the tobacco manufacturers to promote tobacco use now, given the evidence, is like allowing the promotion and sale of rats at the height of the bubonic plague, had officials of the time known the source of the plague. |
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Here the bacteria multiply and form swellings called buboes, from which the term bubonic plague is derived. |
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Waldemar Haffkine, who mainly worked in India, became the first microbiologist to develop and deploy vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague. |
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On 24 June 2009 it was reported that no traces of anthrax or bubonic plague had been found on human bone fragments discovered during tunnelling. |
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Until the arrival of bubonic plague in northern Norway in 1349, the Sami and the Norwegians occupied very separate economic niches. |
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Buboes associated with the bubonic plague are commonly found in the armpits, upper femoral, groin and neck region. |
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For example, in 1940, the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service bombed Ningbo with fleas carrying the bubonic plague. |
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Eurasian diseases such as influenza, bubonic plague and pneumonic plagues devastated the Native Americans who did not have immunity to them. |
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In some areas, ground squirrels may present a potential health problem because they carry ectoparasites that may transmit diseases such as bubonic plague to humans. |
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In 1647 an outbreak of bubonic plague killed a quarter of the population. |
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Medical historians consider these emerods a symptom of bubonic plague. |
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Several classes of antibiotics are effective in treating bubonic plague. |
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A great dog hunt follows, which is later intensified with the fear that the dogs could be carriers of a dangerous bioweapon, such as the bubonic plague. |
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Waldemar Haffkine, who mainly worked in India, who developed and used vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague in the 1890s, is considered the first microbiologist. |
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The second bubonic plague pandemic began in Mongolia around 1330 and may have killed the majority of the population in Hebei and Shanxi and millions elsewhere. |
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