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Part I. Historical Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

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That out breaks of plague are associated with a more or less simultaneous mortality amongst rats is an observation of great antiquity. After the discovery of the bacillus by Yersin and Kitasato this concomitant disease of rats was identified as plague, and during the last twelve years the association of rat plague and human plague has been shown to be almost invariable. The relationship has been so striking that many observers who have studied the question on the spot, e.g. Yersin, Ogata, Simond, Thompson, Koch, Gaffky and many others, have arrived at the opinion that from an epidemiological point of view one must regard plague as essentially a rat-disease in which human beings may participate.

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I. Experiments upon the transmission of plague by fleas
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Journal of Hygiene , Volume 6 , Issue 4: Extra “Plague Number” , September 1906 , pp. 425 - 434
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1906

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