ALLMedicine™ Plague Center

Mar 13th, 2023 - At the end of the 1920s, Tanganyika Territory experienced several serious rodent outbreaks that threatened cotton and other grain production. At the same time, regular reports of pneumonic and bubonic plague occurred in the northern areas of Tanga...

Mar 10th, 2023 - With the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the terms quarantine, contagion and infection have again become part of our everyday speech, prompting historians to reflect on the settings in which they were originally used and to make comparisons with the pre...

Mar 10th, 2023 - History Newborns with pneumonia rarely cough; more commonly they present with poor feeding and irritability, as well as tachypnea, retractions, grunting, and hypoxemia. Grunting in a newborn suggests a lower respiratory tract disease and is due to...

Mar 7th, 2023 - Reply to Alfani: Reconstructing past plague ecology to understand human history.|2023|Stenseth NC,Bramanti B,Büntgen U,Fell HG,Cohn S,|

Mar 6th, 2023 - Pasteurella multocida (P. multocida) infection frequently results in porcine atrophic rhinitis and swine plague, leading to large economic losses for the swine industry worldwide. P. multocida toxin (PMT, 146 kDa) is a highly virulent key virulenc...

Oct 19th, 2022 - Infectious diseases are among the strongest selective pressures driving human evolution1,2. This includes the single greatest mortality event in recorded history, the first outbreak of the second pandemic of plague, commonly called the Black Death...

Oct 19th, 2022 - An international team of scientists who analyzed centuries-old DNA from victims and survivors of the Black Death pandemic has identified key genetic differences that determined who lived and who died, and how those aspects of our immune systems ha...

Apr 6th, 2022 - In a recent article, Immel et al. (Immel A, Key FM, Szolek A, Barquera R, Robinson MK, Harrison GF, Palmer WH, Spyrou MA, Susat J, Krause-Kyora B, et al. 2021. Analysis of genomic DNA from medieval plague victims suggests long-term effect of Yersi...

Jul 16th, 2021 - This report provides CDC recommendations to U.S. health care providers regarding treatment, pre-exposure prophylaxis, and postexposure prophylaxis of plague. Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, leads to naturally occurring disease i...

Sep 19th, 2015 - To present best-practice recommendations for the prevention, recognition, and treatment of exertional heat illnesses (EHIs) and to describe the relevant physiology of thermoregulation. Certified athletic trainers recognize and treat athletes with ...

Mar 3rd, 2023 - The study was planned as a randomized controlled split-mouth clinical trial. A split-mouth design was used to better assess how the same host responded to two different treatment modalities. Two quadrants with contralateral deep periodontal pocket...

Feb 16th, 2023 - Remote phlebotomy services have long been an option for remote communities, yet through the pandemic there has been an apparent decline in these facilities likely driven by a lack of financial incentive for community laboratories; outpatient test ...

Feb 10th, 2023 - In the past three years, the novel coronavirus pandemic has infected nearly 659 million people and caused more than 6.6 million deaths. Due to the continuous existence of the mutation of the novel coronavirus strain, the increased infectivity of t...

Dec 20th, 2022 - For elderly patients, a hip fracture is a life-altering event associated with poor overall outcomes despite early surgical treatment. The elderly population and those with significant osteopenia is growing exponentially and thus the optimal treatm...

Dec 14th, 2022 - The purpose of this study will be to generate the data required to thoroughly validate the ability of plague LFI assay (Lateral Flow Immunoassay) to accurately diagnose human infections with Y. pestis. These validation data will eventually be pres...

Feb 6th, 2023 - Sickle cell disease (SCD) patients in recent years continued to have a much greater risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes, including death, compared with the general population, researchers found. The maternal mortality rate in deliveries involving S...

Jan 31st, 2023 - LONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - China’s manufacturing activity has started to increase as the coronavirus epidemic wanes, after the country abandoned its suppression strategy that severely disrupted the economy with a series of city lockdowns. The manu...

Dec 8th, 2022 - BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Wednesday announced the most sweeping changes to its resolute anti-COVID regime since the pandemic began three years ago, loosening rules that curbed the spread of the virus but sparked protests and hobbled the world's...

Dec 8th, 2022 - BEIJING (Reuters) -China's national health authority said on Wednesday that asymptomatic COVID-19 cases and people with mild symptoms can quarantine at home, in the strongest sign yet that China is preparing its people to live with the disease. Mo...

Dec 6th, 2022 - HONG KONG (Reuters) - China may announce 10 new COVID-19 easing measures as early as Wednesday, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, supplementing 20 unveiled in November that set off a wave of COVID easing steps nationwide. Thre...