Article: plague
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      539 words ......particular the bubonic plague and the black plague (or Black Death), both forms...black form of plague, hemorrhages...giving the term Black Death to the disease...2004); W. Orent, Plague (2004); J. Aberth, The Black Death: The Great ...

Article: Rebecca Totaro. Suffering in Paradise: The Bubonic Plague in English Literature from More to Milton.(Book review)
Utopian Studies;  March 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Rebecca Totaro. Suffering in Paradise: The Bubonic Plague in English Literature from More to Milton. Pittsburgh...to sea by flaming arrows, but it was too late: the plague had reached mainland Europe. This, at least, is one...Constantinople was also infected in 1346, and the plague could have reached Europe ...

Article: Plague
Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World;      700+ words ......yet some of the plagues of the period from...continent-wide plague during any three-ye...interval after the Black Death of the fourteenth...as those of the Black Death, the burdens of...avoiding exposure to plague. The losses and...care. Recurrent plagues caused local ...

Article: Plague on their house.(Century marks)
The Christian Century;  May 4, 2004 ;     118 words ...PLAGUE ON THEIR HOUSE: People tend to think of strangers as the spreaders of contagion. The Mongols were accused of spreading the Black Death in Europe and the Dutch were held responsible for the Great Plague in London of 1665. Tanzanians blame the high rate of AIDS on the Ugandan troops who...

Article: English Plague and New World Promise(*).
Utopian Studies;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...WHEN BUBONIC PLAGUE visited England in 1348, it...Mortality. We know it as the Black Death that lasted until 1352 and...population. In England, bubonic plague on average killed at least...child at the time encountered plague in some way, and all feared it. After 1352, the plague became ...

Article: Venetian rule and control of plague epidemics on the Ionian Islands during 17th and 18th centuries.(HISTORICAL REVIEW)(Clinical report)
Emerging Infectious Diseases;  January 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ......infective material. Untreated plague has a high case-fatality...Australia and Antarctica (3). Plague represents an exotic disease...pathogen (4). Three forms of plague are known: bubonic, septicemic...between humans (1,2). Bubonic plague, historically also known as Black Death, swept ...

Article: Tracing the plague.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
National Catholic Reporter;  January 13, 2006 ;     153 words ......in writing that the returning Crusaders brought back the plague ( The gentle art of Fra Angelico, NCR, Dec. 16). The progress of the Black Death has been reliably traced month after month by its first appearance...religious crusades that continued until the 1700s, and the plague--which continued ...

Article: Black Death
Encyclopedia of Public Health;      534 words ...BLACK DEATH This name is given...bubonic and pneumonic plague that swept across...the ferocity of the Black Death. It seems to have...exceeding 70 percent. The plague spread along trade...villages alike. The Black Death caused large painful...terrifying onslaught of the ...

Article: The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Contemporary Review;  July 1, 2005 ;     187 words ......History of the Black Death. John Kelly Fourth...715069-5. The Black Death or bubonic plague which devastated...argument that the Black Death was not a 'plague pandemic' but...years after the Black Death, the medieval...

Article: Plague.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
The Bookwatch;  November 1, 2004 ;     126 words ...Plague Wendy Orent The Free Press 1230 Avenue of Americas, NY, NY 10020 0743236858 $25.00 www.simonsays.com Plague is the world's most dangerous bacterial disease, a frightening...misunderstood by the general public: enter Wendy Orent's Plague: The Mysterious Past And Terrifying Future Of The World...

Article: Epizootiologic parameters for plague in Kazakhstan.(RESEARCH)
Emerging Infectious Diseases;  February 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......lacking of key epizootiologic parameters for plague caused by Yersinia pestis infection in...results of a 3-year longitudinal study of plague dynamics in populations of a maintenance...nitroblue-tetrazolium test characterization of plague-infected hosts. Y. pestis infection reduced...

Article: The great mortality; an intimate history of the Black Death, the most devastating plague of all time.(INTERNAL MEDICINE, PSYCHIATRY)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
SciTech Book News;  June 1, 2005 ;     155 words ......intimate history of the Black Death, the most devastating plague of all time. Kelly...Kelly describes how the Black Death killed about a third...also describes how plague deniers are coming...conditions that led to the Black Death.

Article: Interdisciplinary Public Health Reasoning and Epidemic Modelling: The Case of Black Death.(Book Review)
Emerging Infectious Diseases;  February 1, 2006 ;     523 words ......Modelling: The Case of Black Death George Christakos, Ricardo...examining the spread of the Black Death in the mid-1300s. Many...depict the spread of the Black Death. The data required to...the epidemiology of the Black Death will probably enjoy perusing...historic ...

Article: AIDS and the black death: a new PBS documentary connects HIV and the plague through people like Steve Crohn, whose ancestors' immunity to the black death has made them resistant to HIV. (television).
The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine);  October 29, 2002 ;     535 words ......their ancestors had immunity to the black death that devastated Europe in the Middle...immune to HIV. Featured on Mystery of the Black Death, the October 30 episode of PBS's Secrets...residents of Eyam, England, survived the black death when it hit the remote village in 1665...