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Bubonic Plague
Terrorists now bearing the sniffles 29 Jan 2006
During the bubonic plague, which the California Department of Health Services utterly ignored back in 1348, a vulnerable and malnourished population was ...
- Los Angeles Daily News,
Following the Money Jan 27, 2006
As a result, the mid-14th century pandemic known as the Black Death?attributed to the infectious disease bubonic plague?took three years to move from ...
- Red Herring,
Ancient Athenian Plague Proves to Be Typhoid Jan 24, 2006
But he did not leave a precise enough description to decide definitively whether the disease was bubonic plague, smallpox or a host of other ailments. ...
- Scientific American
Typhoid Fever Led To The Fall Of Athens Jan 25, 2006
...detailed description, researchers have not managed to agree on the identity of the plague and several diseases, including bubonic plague, smallpox, anthrax and ...
- Medical News Today (press release),
Pair of studies offer new clues to combat antibiotic resistance Jan 27, 2006
Gram-negative bacteria, considered among the most virulent, include strains that are known to cause food borne illness, bubonic plague, Legionnaires’ disease ...
- Biology News Net (press release),
On The Farm: Wildlife diseases can be prevented Jan 15, 2006
Bubonic plague occurs in some areas of West and north Central Texas. Isolated cases have been documented in areas of South and East Texas. ...
- Bryan College Station Eagle,
Typhoid 'caused fall of Athens' Jan 23, 2006
These included bubonic plague, smallpox, anthrax and measles as suspected causes of the epidemic which spread across northern Africa to Egypt, Libya and Greece ...
- BBC News,
Typhoid fever linked to ancient plague of Athens Jan 23, 2006
Several diseases including smallpox, bubonic plague, anthrax and measles have been suggested as the cause of the plague, one of whose most prominent victims ...
- Reuters
Typhoid blamed for the fall of Athens Jan 23, 2006
...recovered, gave detailed descriptions but researchers had never managed to agree on its identity, with candidates including bubonic plague, smallpox, anthrax ...
- Telegraph.co.uk,
Money Trail May Mark Path of New Pandemics Jan 26, 2006
The 14 th century pandemic of bubonic plague - the Black Death -- took three years to hit the entirety of Europe, moving from south to north with an average ...
- CNN
Typhoid fever linked to fall of Athens Jan 23, 2006
Despite Thucydides’ description, researchers could only narrow the possibilities down to a range that included the bubonic plague, smallpox, anthrax and ...
- MSNBC
Typhoid fever tied to plague in ancient Athens Jan 23, 2006
Investigators haven't been able to agree on the type of plague, with bubonic plague, smallpox, anthrax and measles all considered possibilities. ...
- CBC Manitoba,
DNA help on Greek tragedy Jan 24, 2006
Several diseases, including smallpox, bubonic plague, anthrax and measles, have been suggested as the cause of the plague, which killed the Athenian Golden Age ...
- Australian,
Typhoid Contributed to Athens' Downfall Jan 24, 2006
Since this account, everything from the bubonic plague to smallpox and scarlet fever was mentioned as possibilities for the horrible disease. ...
- Discovery Channel
New Evidence for Deaths of Ancient Athenians Jan 25, 2006
...from an unknown disease. Scientific speculations included bubonic plague, anthrax, smallpox, and even measles. The Greek university ...
- Prensa Latina,
When the flu becomes a crime Jan 26, 2006
...wane. The Bubonic Plague comes on with great force, sweeping everything in its path like a year long tsunami and then it's gone. ...
- Pennington Post,
New Study Suggests Fall Of Athens Caused By Typhoid Jan 24, 2006
Based on his description, scientists narrowed the possible diseases to bubonic plague, smallpox, anthrax and measles, among other possibilities. ...
- All Headline News
Typhoid May Have Resulted In The Fall Of Athens Jan 25, 2006
...recently. There were however still varying accounts of the plague, as to whether it was a bubonic plague, anthrax, smallpox, or measles. ...
- MedIndia,
Health officials allay fears of rat infection Jan 24, 2006
...and can be treated.". The upshot of the survey is that there is no evidence of the much-feared bubonic plague. The city says its ...
- SABC News,
Lessons of the Barbary Plague Jan 3, 2006
...that rats could carry plague, but not that they could transmit it via fleas to humans-even though dead rats had been a signature of bubonic plague since the ...
- TheTyee.ca,
Shack dwellers tested amid rat disease fears Jan 23, 2006
Blood and tissue samples from four species of rats and mice collected in Durban during the past two years all came up negative for bubonic plague, but in some ...
- Independent Online,
Plant-derived plague vaccine protects guinea pigs Jan 16, 2006
...effectively protected guinea pigs against a lethal aerosol exposure to this bacterium that causes the plague, also known as the "bubonic plague," or the "black ...
- Herald News Daily,
BIRDS OF A FEVER Jan 14, 2006
...on the economy. A reduced supply of labour could lead to higher wages, as was the case after the Bubonic Plague. Central banks would ...
- Business Online,
'Black Death' sparking fear as peace looms Jan 24, 2006
...them children. The organisation says it is a tragedy comparable only to such scourges as the bubonic plague of medieval times. Sudan ...
- Independent Online,
Taking a page from Camus to read up on avian flu Jan 20, 2006
Given all that, an existential novel on bubonic plague in 1947 Algeria and life in the quarantined city of Oran was enough to put me in the foulest of moods. ...
- Turkish Daily News (subscription),
Threat of cooties enough to keep the soap handy Jan 15, 2006
The bubonic plague doesn't really seem to be wiping out populations anymore, unless you're worried about marmots and prairie dogs. ...
- Chicago Sun-Times,
But This is Chico: City's will to live as strong as London's Jan 16, 2006
Ackroyd's "London: The Biography of a City." He writes that in its 2,000 years of recorded history, London has seen it all: Bubonic plague, fires, military ...
- Enterprise-Record,
Scientist draw plague vaccine from tobacco plants Jan 9, 2006
...medical journal. Bubonic plague, the 'Black Death' of the Middle Ages, still flares up occasionally in many parts of the world. The ...
- Monsters and Critics.com,
On this day Jan 14, 2006
1900 – Bubonic plague reported in Adelaide after spreading from China to India and Noumea; on January 19, first case is reported in Sydney: 103 die. ...
- Melbourne Herald Sun,
Scottish links hides plague burials Jan 6, 2006
The course is the remaining open part of Burgh Muir, an oak forest that was used to isolate victims of the bubonic plague from the 15th through the 17th ...
- Monsters and Critics.com,
Periodic table Jan 20, 2006
...revealed, throwing new light on the evolution of plant pathogen Erwinia and its relationship with animal pathogens such as salmonella, bubonic plague and E coli ...
- Scotsman,
What's On Tonight: Wednesday Jan 11, 2006
...terrorists. These particular terrorists have weaponized bubonic plague, and they know how to use it. Plague is sooo 14th century. ...
- Albuquerque Tribune,
Making merry Jan 13, 2006
...this practice was so disgusting it even scared off rats, which meant that of all the things a tanner had to worry about, catching bubonic plague was not one of ...
- Scotsman,
— Tom Tykwer and Franke Potente, "Running Two" Jan 11, 2006
...in voiceover/montage, is capable of "rais[ing] documents from the dead," that is, putting together damaged papers to locate the Bubonic plague attack planned ...
- PopMatters,
avoid animals Jan 5, 2006
...benefits. Seems like these two beasts are chronologically opposed. I mean, shouldn't we be over the bubonic plague by now? And shouldn ...
- dirt,
A Dated But Worthwhile Look at Nanomedicine Jan 2, 2006
Aging, in this view, is as natural as smallpox and bubonic plague, and more surely fatal. Unlike bubonic plague, however, aging ...
- Methuselah Foundation,
Bird flu concerns have local, national reach Jan 18, 2006
The outbreak was so serious that some thought it might be a revival of the Black Death bubonic plague, but according to historical statistical evidence, it was ...
- Chadron Record,
Sooner or later, fat exacts health toll Jan 13, 2006
...people). The lethal illness, also known as bubonic plague, is caused by a rod-shaped bacterium known as Yersinia pestis. People ...
- Globe and Mail,
Lessons on terrorism from down south Jan 18, 2006
...madrassa " and the fact that one of the "school" co-founders is called "Dockrat" – the name of the rodent that spreads bubonic plague – made authorities in ...
- Daily Nation (subscription),
Hong Kong beyond the bling Jan 7, 2006
It features a collection of old microscopes, slides, and photos documenting the history of the bubonic plague and the discovery of its cure. ...
- Globe and Mail,
Free from censors, playwright explores dark chapters of Iraq's ... Jan 8, 2006
One play he wrote about 17th-century Baghdad drew attention because he had the Ottoman rulers fleeing the city ahead of the bubonic plague. ...
- Boston Globe,
New York's Bloomberg, Kelly Both Wrong on Rights Jan 11, 2006
Washington, Mayor Bloomberg's one-track mind, three-piece suit and two-bit attitude about gun ownership will be less welcome than an outbreak of bubonic plague ...
- MichNews.com,
Barbarians at the gates Jan 6, 2006
..."As the world's largest historical reenactment group, we like to say we have everything from the Middle Ages except bubonic plague," says the good lady. ...
- Pahrump Valley Times,
ROCK, POP, ACOUSTIC Jan 4, 2006
Il Corral, 662 N Heliotrope Dr, LA, (323) 663-0137. Ilcorral.net. Shows at 9. Thur: Laco$te, Explogasm, Flasper, Bubonic Plague, Floating Corpses. ...
- LA City Beat,
We expect this year to be refreshing –Kumuyi Jan 4, 2006
...is an annual event of the Deeper Life Bible Church, but last year’s appears to be the church’s response to the ills eating Nigeria like bubonic plague. ...
- Nigeria Daily Independent,
Let’s have a bird flu plan - not a panic response Jan 12, 2006
The bubonic plague, Spanish flu of 1918, and even the HIV virus, have all had precursor stages or forms in animals, mammals or birds. ...
- IrishExaminer.com,
Michela Wrong Jan 5, 2006
Vaccination certificates proving he wouldn't infect anyone in the country, which experiences the odd brush with the likes of ebola and bubonic plague. ...
- New Statesman,
1918 A wave of illness and death Part 3...Local doctors joined the ... Jan 11, 2006
Records indicate that more people died of Spanish Influenza in a single year than in four years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 through 1351. ...
- Decatur Daily Democrat,
THREE DAYS Jan 9, 2006
She’d dominate the conversations with her patched-together notions of Leda and the swan, the void of Ginnungagap, the bubonic plague and Hathor the Egyptian ...
- New Yorker,
C'est la folie Jan 6, 2006
Régine shows me how to fill in the various forms that are stacked on the table. Do you suffer from the bubonic plague? Have you had a heart attack today? ...
- Telegraph.co.uk,
Man Turns His Heartbreak Into Hope For Others Jan 4, 2006
Her life slowly slipped away. Even his would never be the same. "You get no visitors. Sign outside must have said 'bubonic plague,'" he said. ...
- WESH.com,
Disaster victims need our support Dec 30, 2005
...many times over. The bubonic plague and disease in general ravaged the human population during the middle ages. The shifting of ...
- Edwardsville Intelligencer,
Professors hope vaccines from tobacco will help fend off plague Jan 17, 2006
...and bloody saliva. In the case of bubonic plague, symptoms also include swollen lymph glands, called buboes. "Terrorists could disseminate ...
- Web Devil
Value investing: Updating the magic formula 23 Nov 2005
Lisa Rapuano, of the Matador hedge fund, asked if value investing was dead, and launched her presentation with the bubonic plague scene from the film Monty ...
- Financial Times,
One Man's Opinion - The Flu 23 Nov 2005
So we find a child in a local school with a bad cold. Do we tell the world and ensure then that this is definitely not the Bubonic plague? ...
- Thunder Bay's Source,
The Lit Parade 23 Nov 2005
...specter of a Magnitude 8 earthquake preceded by rampant wildfires, apocalyptic flooding, drought, coyote and mountain lion attacks, bubonic plague, and lethal ...
- Village Voice,
Defense Department helps secure former Soviet 'antiplague' sites 23 Nov 2005
Located in regions where many dangerous diseases such as anthrax, bubonic plague and tularemia are endemic, or through which exotic diseases might spread, some ...
- GovExec.com
At Entry Points, on the Lookout for Symptoms Nov 22, 2005
...of medical officers at ports and the use of a quarantine to slow or stop the entry of disease-carrying travelers dates to the epidemic of bubonic plague in the ...
- New York Times,
Grim reality of Turkmen health care Nov 16, 2005
...on paper the situation is a happy one, TB is in decline, the country is free from syphilis and Aids, and there have been no reported outbreaks of bubonic plague ...
- BBC News,
Facts about fleas Nov 16, 2005
The so-called Oriental rat flea is found worldwide and is the most important species as it is a transmitter of bubonic plague or Black Death and murine or ...
- Rock River Times,
'One Flea Spare' tears down class boundaries Nov 16, 2005
In writing "One Flea Spare" in the mid-1990s, Wallace used the bubonic plague as a metaphor for the continuing AIDS crisis, Shepard says. ...
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,
(REPOST) PEAK OIL ROUSES PROPHET! Nov 17, 2005
It is about avoiding another Fall of Rome, Bubonic Plague, Civil War, Spanish Flu, Great Depression, Pearl Harbor, 9/11, and Katrina. ...
- Free Market News Network,
The End of Pandemics Nov 11, 2005
...of a foreign insect-borne virus, never before seen in the Western Hemisphere, is...reminiscent of the introduction of yellow fever and bubonic plague in past ...
- Reason Online
A Fluid Situation Nov 11, 2005
...epidemic disease ..." — probably wouldn't sell. I refer to the word, plague, as in Bubonic Plague. Presumably, epidemic was too soft ...
- Great Falls Connection,
A historic opportunity Nov 13, 2005
But medieval generations gradually built up resistance to the bubonic plague, and the discovery of antibiotics ended its deadly rampage. ...
- Los Angeles Times,
Just cattin' around Nov 18, 2005
The destruction of the cat population upset the natural balance between felines and rodents, which contributed to the spread of the bubonic plague, a disease ...
- Tahlequah Daily Press,
Anti-HIV gene goes back millennia Nov 10, 2005
...few fortunate people resistance to HIV infection is thousands of years old - meaning it was probably not handed down from ancestors who survived bubonic plague ...
- New Scientist (subscription),
There's what you know, and there's what you think you know Nov 3, 2005
...water - a preventive medicine for a non-critical disease (Compared to the millions who died in the great flu pandemic of 1919 or the Bubonic Plague, a head ...
- The Morning Sun,
DR. HOOK- Avian anxiety: If bird flu comes, fly! Nov 3, 2005
...in 1918, 1957, and 1968). The pandemic of 1918 killed more people in one year than the Bubonic Plague. When Avian influenza H5N1 ...
- The Hook,
Equip public health agencies to deal with bird flu Nov 8, 2005
In response to symptoms of bubonic plague, one local public health official advised a researcher "go back to bed" and not worry. ...
- The Southern,
For the record Oct 25, 2005
Correction: Because of an editing error, a story about the avian flu in yesterday's Health/Science section mischaracterized the bubonic plague. ...
- Boston Globe,
The V-Antigen of Yersinia Forms a Distinct Structure at the Tip of ... Oct 29, 2005
...bacteria to introduce effector proteins into target host cells (1). Yersinia pestis and Y. enterocolitica, causing bubonic plague and gastroenteritis ...
- Science Magazine (subscription)
It's all about bacterial flagella Nov 4, 2005
HARRISBURG — Scott Minnich loves the bubonic plague. He loves talking about it. Just loves it. And Thursday, during the University ...
- York Daily Record,
It's Samba time Nov 9, 2005
...easily stirred up. The heat was often intolerable and there were outbreaks of cholera, yellow fever and bubonic plague. But Miller ...
- Telegraph.co.uk,
Del Mar Stops Controversial Squirrel Poisoning Nov 10, 2005
...activists. The city had been using poison, baited traps to eliminate an over-population of squirrels, which can carry bubonic plague. ...
- 10News.com,
'The Plague' is dead on arrival Oct 29, 2005
...way. Thus a documentary on the biggest pandemic of them all -- the bubonic plague of the 14th century -- is smart and timely. ''The ...
- Boston Globe,
Terrorist Favorites Nov 9, 2005
...bio-agents that could be used are anthrax, ricin (more accurately described as a bio-toxin as opposed to a bio-warfare agent), bubonic plague, smallpox, and ...
- Strategy Page
Memri: Syrian Gov. Religious Figure on Defending Region from ... Nov 10, 2005
The Koran said this, not me. 1351... In other words, for about 100 years, the bubonic plague,. tuberculosis, and malaria spread there. ...
- Independent Media Review Analysis (IMRA),
Fleas with plague found in Denver, Boulder squirrels Oct 27, 2005
Fleas with bubonic plague have been found in the fur of some urban squirrels around the metro area, raising concerns for household pets, especially cats. ...
- Rocky Mountain News,
Here's how to salve that wound, Kim Nov 13, 2005
Lemonade: "My dear Mark, I can't praise you enough for all you and the health board have done. Yet another day without bubonic plague! ...
- The Spokesman Review,
Recollection - you got it or you don't Nov 12, 2005
...past administration's failures to fend off criticisms of the current quagmire is like saying, "well, at least the bird flu is not as bad as the bubonic plague ...
- Toledo Blade,
Good news, bad news Nov 15, 2005
...digestion? Bad news, all of it. The good news is, there hasn't been a serious outbreak of bubonic plague since 1665. I'll drink to that. ...
- Brampton Guardian,
Plaguing questions Nov 10, 2005
Dying of the flu is probably less horrific than the bubonic plague. And the beauty of a pandemic is that you won’t be in it alone. ...
- Portsmouth Herald News,
Averting the Bird Flu Nov 7, 2005
It is a frightening possibility that ought to remind humanity of the Bubonic plague or the Spanish influenza of many centuries back. ...
- This Day (subscription),
City quarantine probably wouldn't work Nov 6, 2005
In 1900, San Francisco quarantined its Chinatown neighborhood during an outbreak of bubonic plague, Markel said. But 122 people died. ...
- New York Daily News,
Poised for flight Oct 23, 2005
...from animals to humans. AIDS from monkeys. SARS from bats. Bubonic plague from flea-infested rats. And, maybe, swine will prove ...
- Boston Globe,
Feral pigs become a menace in the northwoods Nov 2, 2005
...feral animals will infect native wildlife and livestock with any of the 13 diseases they carry such as brucellosis, tuberculosis, bubonic plague and trichinosis ...
- San Jose Mercury News,
'Colbert' more relevant than 'SNL' Oct 26, 2005
..."Every global pandemic has a silver lining," he said approvingly. "Remember, the Medici made their money investing in the bubonic plague. A lot of people did. ...
- Indianapolis Star,
Haplotype Map Offers New Insights Into Human Disease, Evolution Oct 26, 2005
...variation in a T-cell receptor that confers strong resistance to infection by HIV and that has been implicated in resistance to the bubonic plague, did not ...
- Newswise (press release)
HapMap provides 'catalog' of human genetic variation Oct 28, 2005
32, a genetic variation in a T-cell receptor that confers strong resistance to infection by HIV and that has been implicated in resistance to the bubonic plague ...
- noticias.info,
A house of horrors for animals Oct 31, 2005
Flat. Many of the cats had died on the property. Early worries that the cats had bubonic plague proved unfounded. Property owner ...
- Bakersfield Californian (subscription),
"Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy's Boo Haw Haw": This Toon's Definitely a Treat Oct 26, 2005
The map proves difficult to decipher, and so Eddy needs help from both Edd, who wears the cutest representation of bubonic plague ever stitched together, and ...
- Toon Zone,
BACTERIA ON CDC'S BIOTERRORISM LIST DETECTED IN SJ Oct 31, 2005
The CDC's top bioterrorism agents include anthrax, bubonic plague, small pox, botulism and viral hemorrhagic fevers, Alexiou said. ...
- CBS 5,
The Jayd-ed edge Oct 27, 2005
A bio terror lab in Newark, NJ, is searching for three missing mice. Federal authorities are concerned the mice may be carrying the bubonic plague. ...
- Etownian,
The Travesty That Has Become Fifth Avenue Oct 25, 2005
I've known about the GAP's existence there because it, like some sort of bubonic plague, permeates every nook and cranny of American life and is a force unto ...
- Pace Press (subscription),
Rotarians speak with modern-day witches Oct 28, 2005
...cats. Cats were burned and tortured along with witches. ... The cat did get revenge though, in the form of bubonic plague. It killed ...
- Farmington Daily Times,
Weekend of Horrors Oct 27, 2005
400 Blows, Heroine Sheiks, Bubonic Plague and Qui hit the stage tonight at King King for a special Halloween show. Doors open at 8 PM; $10 cover. ...
- LAist,
Geneticists Unveil Powerful Tool for Understanding Disease Oct 27, 2005
...in a T-cell receptor called CCR5-?32, which confers strong resistance to infection by HIV and has been implicated in resistance to the bubonic plague, did not ...
- Daily News Central,
Colo. prairie dogs hit with bubonic plague Sep 29, 2005
BOULDER, CO, United States (UPI) -- Health officials have issued a warning concerning bubonic plague-infected prairie dogs in the Boulder, Colo., area. ...
- Monsters and Critics.com
Mice Infected With Bubonic Plague Missing Sep 15, 2005
NEWARK, NJ -- Three mice infected with the bacteria responsible for bubonic plague apparently disappeared from a laboratory about two weeks ago, and ...
- Los Angeles Times
Missing Mice Infected With Deadly Bubonic Plague Sep 15, 2005
By Jen Maxfield. (Newark-WABC, September 15, 2005) - The mice are missing from a bio terror lab in Newark, and what has federal authorities ...
- 7Online.com
Plague Mice Loosed: Jersey Search for Bubonic Lab Escapees Sep 15, 2005
PEJ News - CL Cook - "About" two weeks ago, authorities now admit, three mice infected with the Bubonic Plague went missing from a New Jersey "bioterrorism" lab ...
- PEJ News
Missing Mice Infected With Deadly Bubonic Plague Sep 15, 2005
The mice are missing from a bio terror lab in Newark, and what has federal authorities worried - and angry at the lab - is that the mice are carrying the plague ...
- Borsa-Italia.Net
Mice Infected With Bubonic Plague Missing Sep 16, 2005
Three mice infected with the bacteria responsible for bubonic plague apparently disappeared from a laboratory about two weeks ago, and authorities launched a ...
- KFMB
Bubonic Plague Sep 1, 2005
The headlines were gripping: two people were hospitalized in New York City in November 2002 with bubonic plague. Many people are ...
- rarediseases.about.com
Colo. prairie dogs hit with bubonic plague Sep 29, 2005
Health officials have issued a warning concerning bubonic plague-infected prairie dogs in the Boulder, Colo., area. People visiting ...
- Webindia123
Residents continue to worry about Bubonic Plague Aug 31, 2005
BAKERSFIELD - Workers at a local animal hospital said since the Hart Flat Bubonic Plague scare, they’ve been inundated with people afraid their cats are sick ...
- KGET 17
Bubonic Plague not cause of death in Hart Flat cats Aug 29, 2005
...breathed a sigh of relief Monday when the test results from the carcass of one of the cats found in Kern’s mountains came back negative for Bubonic Plague. ...
- KGET 17
Bubonic plague in the Book of Samuel Aug 31, 2005
...translations as tumours. Bubonic plague, caused by Yersinia pestis, is transmitted by the bite of the flea Xenopsylla cheopsis. This flea ...
- Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
Bubonic Plague Buries Colony Of Prairie Dogs Aug 29, 2005
Albuquerque's Environmental Health Department said the bubonic plague has wiped out an entire colony of prairie dogs in the East Mountains. ...
- The New Mexico Channel.com
New Jersey lab loses mice infected with bubonic plague Sep 15, 2005
PHILADELPHIA - (KRT) - Three mice infected with bubonic plague have been reported missing from a New Jersey bioterrorism research lab, but authorities say they ...
- Charlotte Observer
Jim Souhan: Twins must think big this winter Oct 1, 2005
Star at catcher and, if Justin Morneau swaddles himself in bubble wrap this winter and doesn't contract pleurisy, shingles and the bubonic plague, a potential ...
- Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription)
New deal leaves the door open for speculation Oct 1, 2005
They might not win the North Central Conference every year, but barring a breakout of bubonic plague on campus, the Sioux will contend every year. ...
- In-Forum (subscription)
'Germ freak' offers tips for staying cold-free Oct 1, 2005
It took three years for the bubonic plague to spread to another continent in earlier times; it would take a day now with air travel. We need to be more aware. ...
- Pioneer Press
Saving Us from Darwin Sep 29, 2005
And should the God of love and mercy be given credit for the anopheles mosquito, the schistosomiasis parasite, anthrax, smallpox, bubonic plague...? ...
- The New York Review of Books
Missing Plague Mice Point Up Concerns About Lab Security Sep 19, 2005
...institute. Researchers realized on Aug. 29 that they had lost track of three laboratory mice infected with deadly bubonic plague. The ...
- Newhouse News Service (NNS)
3 plague-infected lab mice missing Sep 16, 2005
NEWARK, NJ — Three laboratory mice infected with the bacteria responsible for bubonic plague are missing from a bioterrorism-research facility in Newark ...
- Seattle Times
Infected mice missing from bioterror lab Sep 16, 2005
Three mice infected with bubonic plague have been reported missing from a New Jersey bioterrorism research lab, but authorities say they most likely were eaten ...
- philly.com
See how they run Sep 20, 2005
...it take more than two weeks for the nearby community to be informed that the three missing mice were infected with the bacteria responsible for bubonic plague? ...
- Toledo Blade
A Long, Gud Walk Fir Auld Lang Syne Sep 27, 2005
...thit wisnae paid tae um. In another room, a gravedigger's family hud fallen sick tae the bubonic plague. Mary King's Close wis infamous ...
- Digital Divide Network
Your Health Sep 19, 2005
...and if I happen to see anyone picking in the very area that I intend to pillage, I point them to the freshly posted signs that read "Bubonic Plague Zone" or ...
- Richmond News
Mice with plague disappear from lab Sep 17, 2005
NEWARK, NJ – Three mice infected with the bacteria responsible for bubonic plague apparently disappeared from a laboratory about two weeks ago, and ...
- TheNewsTribune.com (subscription)
Rodent fleas can transmit cat plague Sep 5, 2005
In cats and humans alike, there are three forms of plague. Bubonic plague is the form in which the lymph nodes near the flea bite become enlarged and painful. ...
- Monterey County Herald
Black Days Sep 14, 2005
National Review Online: What would possess you to write a book on bubonic plague? John Kelly: Couldn’t help it. I fell in love. ...
- National Review Online
UMDNJ lab will improve security Sep 17, 2005
NEWARK — The lab that lost track of three mice infected with the bacteria responsible for bubonic plague will improve its video surveillance and no longer ...
- Asbury Park Press
Mice infected with plague missing from lab Sep 15, 2005
NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) -- Three mice infected with the bacteria responsible for bubonic plague apparently disappeared from a laboratory about two weeks ago ...
- CNN International
Plague mice spark bio-attack alert Sep 16, 2005
THREE mice infected with bubonic plague have been reported missing from a New Jersey bio-terrorism research lab, but authorities say they most likely were ...
- Brisbane Courier Mail
Johannesburg, Blighted by Apartheid, Rebounds as Crime Drops Sep 25, 2005
...a mile away, the city built a 100 million-rand apartment complex in Brickfields, an area that had lain derelict since an outbreak of bubonic plague in 1905. ...
- Bloomberg
Trawler steamed into germ warfare site and no one said a word Sep 18, 2005
...was the focus of panicked signals from the Admiralty after she accidentally sailed through the site of an experiment with pneumonic and bubonic plague germs. ...
- Telegraph.co.uk
A disease often spread by fleas Sep 14, 2005
What are the signs and symptoms? A swollen and tender lymph gland, accompanied by pain. The swollen gland is called a "bubo" (hence the term "bubonic plague"). ...
- Newark Star Ledger
Missing plague-infected mice no health threat, officials say Sep 17, 2005
PHILADELPHIA - Three mice infected with bubonic plague have been reported missing from a New Jersey bioterrorism research lab, but authorities say they most ...
- Columbia Daily Tribune
SHAKEUP AT 'MICE-TAKEN' PLAGUE LAB Sep 17, 2005
Be that as it may, FBI and Centers for Disease Control probes into what became of the mice — infected with the deadly bubonic plague — are continuing.
- New York Post
Three Plague-Infected Lab Mice Missing Sep 19, 2005
Three laboratory mice infected with the bacteria responsible for bubonic plague are missing from a bioterrorism-research facility in Newark, sparking an ...
- PCT Online
Trendy city slickers at home in Jo’burg Sep 27, 2005
The city also built a R100m apartment complex in Brickfields, an area that had lain derelict since an outbreak of bubonic plague in 1905. ...
- Business Day
Editorial: Take Steps to Avoid Plague Sep 22, 2005
Recent cases of bubonic plague to hit the area— five cases found in wildlife and one case in a domestic cat— have health officials warning those in nearby ...
- Mountain View Journal
Propolis for healthy gums Sep 26, 2005
They are very susceptible to bacterial and viral infections, which can destroy hives the way the bubonic plague ravaged Europe in the 17th century. ...
- New Straits Times
Black Death hits Congo’s diamond mines Sep 7, 2005
...carrying infected fleas. Investigators did find a myriad of rodents near the mining camp, but no bubonic plague. Since November ...
- ISN
Trawler crew exposed to deadly plague test Sep 10, 2005
...weapons tests off the Isle of Lewis, monkeys and guinea pigs were suspended from cages on pontoon bridges and exposed to clouds of deadly bubonic plague. ...
- The Sunday Times
State notches second human plague case Aug 31, 2005
The man, whose name and age were not released, has been hospitalized with bubonic plague and is recovering, Deborah Busemeyer, department spokeswoman, said ...
- Los Alamos Monitor
Review: When Germs Travel Sep 12, 2005
As he explores the issues of tuberculois, bubonic plague, trachoma, typhys, cholera, and AIDS, he highlights how quickly reasonable health concerns can ...
- Blogcritics.org
Mice infected with deadly plague are missing Sep 15, 2005
NEWARK, NJ -- Authorities are searching for three mice infected with bubonic plague that disappeared from a research laboratory about two weeks ago. ...
- Newsday
Health Highlights: Sept. 15, 2005 Sep 16, 2005
Three laboratory mice infected with the bacterium that causes bubonic plague have been discovered missing from the campus of the University of Medicine and ...
- ABC News
Mice infected with plague missing from lab Sep 15, 2005
NEWARK, NJ Three mice infected with the bacteria responsible for bubonic plague are missing from a laboratory in New Jersey. Authorities ...
- KESQ
Winner & Loser Sep 19, 2005
No big deal right? It's not as though there is a shortage of rats in New Jersey, but these rats are carrying the middle-age disease of the bubonic plague. ...
- Beacon Newspaper (subscription)
Flu shot clinic signup begins Sep 19, 2005
Wednesday. That flu killed more people worldwide than the Bubonic Plague, making it the most devastating epidemic in recorded history. ...
- Arizona Daily Sun
Missing Mice Sep 16, 2005
...has federal authorities worried is that the mice have been injected with form of bacterium that causes various forms of the plague, including bubonic plague. ...
- KELOLAND TV
: Massive Pest Control Program Urged for Gulf States Sep 9, 2005
...of the population of Europe, was spread by the combination of rats and the parasitic fleas that lived off of them, that transmitted the bubonic plague to humans ...
- NewsReleaseWire.com (press release)
Whittaker: Is God angry? Sep 16, 2005
It has brought together paintings that recorded the many outbreaks of bubonic plague that affected Europe from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. ...
- Hopkinton Crier
A Good Laugh: Sep 20, 2005
...is serious. Because mice infected with bubonic plague have escaped and are on the loose in Newark, New Jersey. That's true. Yeah ...
- AgWeb
Late-Night Laughs Sep 20, 2005
Conan O’Brien: “A group of scientists is very worried because — this is serious — because mice infected with bubonic plague have escaped and are on the ...
- Kansas City Star
Cats test negative for plague infection Aug 29, 2005
County Public Health officials announced Monday that 50 cats quarantined at a trailer home in the hills above Hart Flat are not infected with bubonic plague. ...
- Bakersfield Californian (subscription)
National Guard on a sacred mission to save those sunk in the black ... Sep 24, 2005
When the water became deep enough, it flooded the floorboard of our Humvee and we would lift our feet as soldiers made nervous jokes about bubonic plague. ...
- Staunton News Leader
Study finds public clinics ailing Sep 3, 2005
...botulism symptoms to go back to bed. Another told a caller describing signs of bubonic plague not to worry. And not one of 19 public ...
- OCRegister (subscription)
AROUND THE NATION Sep 16, 2005
...facility. Researchers realized Aug. 29 that they had lost track of three laboratory mice infected with bubonic plague. The mice ...
- Houston Chronicle
Horseless carriages are so 2004 SO BAD IT WAS GOOD? Sep 19, 2005
And will everyone please stop worrying about the three mice infected with bubonic plague that have been missing for more than two weeks from a laboratory in ...
- Chicago Sun-Times
New Orleans Has Decided It Is Pretty Much Bankrupt Sep 17, 2005
...could flood under the wrong circumstances, translating into problems, obviously, and that three mice infected for approved experiments on bubonic plague at the ...
- Useless-Knowledge.com
City and County Prepare for Contagious Diseases Sep 23, 2005
A nurse then hands a man his pills. "This is an antibiotic. Is this for the bubonic plague? Yes it is. This is the drug of choice. ...
- WSFA
New Orleans, Katrina and the Un-Kindness of Strangers Sep 2, 2005
...classic A Recent Martyr, which plumbs the depths of a love triangle in the midst of New Orleans paralyzed by a contemporary bubonic plague outbreak, should be ...
- The Simon
Alauddin Al Azad-a novelist representing a new generation Sep 2, 2005
...'The Plague' is a symbolic novel in which the important achievement of those who fight bubonic plague in Oran lies not in the little success they have but in ...
- Independent-Bangladesh
A triumph built on effort and skill as refreshing as a dunk in ... Sep 7, 2005
Oslo had seemed as ripe a graveyard as any for Scotland's hopes, with the old town itself once almost wiped out due to an outbreak of bubonic plague in the ...
- Scotsman
Agencies respond slowly to major US health threats Aug 29, 2005
Many of the nation's public health agencies were dangerously slow to respond to reports of botulism, anthrax, smallpox and bubonic plague in a government ...
- USA Today
Survey finds clinics respond unevenly to bioterror symptoms Aug 29, 2005
Another told a caller describing signs of bubonic plague not to worry. And not one of 19 public health clinics surveyed by the RAND Corp. ...
- Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription)
Local Health Agencies Faulted on Bioterror Response Times Aug 30, 2005
...looked at the ability of local agencies to meet federal standards for responding to urgent-case reports of infectious diseases like bubonic plague, anthrax or ...
- Forbes
First Chapter Sep 4, 2005
...curtailed. In the fourteenth century, the city's inhabitants, and those of other German communities, were ravaged by the bubonic plague. ...
- New York Times
Clark: Orton needs to shed training wheels Sep 15, 2005
...late for that? "The Bears treat offense," Tony Kornheiser wrote in Tuesday's Washington Post, "as if it's bubonic plague.". He went ...
- DesMoinesRegister.com
Sick mice missing from lab Sep 16, 2005
NEWARK — Three mice infected with the bacteria responsible for bubonic plague apparently disappeared from a laboratory about two weeks ago, and authorities ...
- Asbury Park Press
Health agencies fail disease-report test Aug 30, 2005
...said most of the public health agencies tested in 18 states responded slowly -- if at all -- to reports of anthrax, botulism, bubonic plague and smallpox, USA ...
- United Press International
Extra, Extra Sep 15, 2005
...ha, you play with fire, you get burnt! - Some mice with the bubonic plague escaped from a NJ lab... note to self: Be more afraid of mice.
- Gothamist
State Records Second Case Of Human Plague Aug 30, 2005
State Department of Health officials said Tuesday that a Santa Fe County man is hospitalized with the bubonic plague. The agency ...
- The New Mexico Channel.com
Bioterror hot lines often cold: ‘Emergency' calls to health ... Sep 1, 2005
One municipal health department worker told the caller to ‘‘go back to bed'' because no other cases of possible bubonic plague had been reported. ...
- The Patriot Ledger
Light to moderate exercise key to health in post-menopausal women Sep 5, 2005
After hundreds of years of increasing life expectancy, through banishment of bubonic plague and smallpox, no world wars, discovery of antibiotics, state-of-the ...
- Innovations-Report
Sept. 11 has brought changes in daily lives Sep 11, 2005
And emergency agencies like the fire department didn't contemplate scenarios of mass chemical poisoning or the unleashing of the bubonic plague. That was then. ...
- Shreveport Times
John Ervin: A Storm Of Mediocrity Sep 5, 2005
The 1976 film, “The Cassandra Crossing� had a great plot line involving a fugitive carrying bubonic plague hiding out on a luxury train coursing through ...
- Elites TV
Rodents find home at rescue agency Sep 6, 2005
...companions. Often associated with the bubonic plague that swept across medieval Europe, rodents have always shouldered a bum rap. ...
- Greensboro News Record
Gardener brings order to relief Sep 10, 2005
But doctors warn of more severe illnesses brewing — cholera and even bubonic plague. Free tetanus shots were being offered all over the county. ...
- Palm Beach Post
Most health agencies pass test Aug 29, 2005
...about a case of suspected botulism and, in yet another, advised the caller to "go back to bed" despite describing what appeared to be a case of bubonic plague. ...
- Pittsburgh Post Gazette
NARRATIVE HISTORY Sep 4, 2005
This compelling book focuses on Europe, where the Black Death (probably bubonic plague, although there is debate on that) circled the continent in a little ...
- Dallas Morning News (subscription)
FOOL'S EYE VIEW Sep 1, 2005
...years of stock-market falls, plus various pension-related crises (such as the near-collapse of Equitable Life) have made pensions as popular as bubonic plague. ...
- Motley Fool UK
Analysis: Tragedies of nature, terror leave vulnerable feeling Sep 11, 2005
Consider the Black Death, the outbreak of bubonic plague that claimed the lives of 200 million — one-third of the population of Europe and Asia — in the ...
- Palm Beach Post
Tuning Into My Guilty Pleasure Sep 1, 2005
...expanding exponentially and invading your living room. It’s the new bubonic plague. Alas, there may be no justifiable defense ...
- Daily Californian
Looking back at the reel history of New Orleans Sep 11, 2005
Big Easy. Richard Widmark stars as a Navy doctor trying to stop a bubonic plague epidemic from wiping out the city. Notable for ...
- Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
Public Health Agencies Often Responded Poorly To Simulated ... Aug 30, 2005
...called 19 public health agencies in 18 states between February and November 2004 and reported symptoms of botulism, anthrax, smallpox and bubonic plague. ...
- Kaiser network.org
Top dog twice over Sep 5, 2005
They developed from fluffy lap dogs kept by court ladies to attract bubonic plague-bearing fleas from the owner, McCormack said. ...
- The Union of Grass Valley
The Why Files -- whyfiles.org Sep 1, 2005
Humanity has curbed the bubonic plague, polio and smallpox, but, to every parent's dismay, head lice have proven to be especially problematic pests to eliminate ...
- Why Files
RAND Study Examines Public Health Clinics Aug 29, 2005
One health clinic officer told a caller describing botulism symptoms to go back to bed. Another told a caller describing signs of bubonic plague not to worry. ...
- San Francisco Chronicle
Plage infected mice missing from lab Sep 15, 2005
...(Newark, NJ-AP) September 15, 2005 - Three mice infected with the bacteria responsible for bubonic plague are missing from a laboratory in New Jersey. ...
- WIS
National Briefing Southwest, Midwest, South, Washington and Labor Aug 29, 2005
...poor performance on outbreaks Public health departments remain unprepared to quickly respond to an outbreak of infectious diseases like bubonic plague or a ...
- New York Times
RAND Study Examines Public Health Clinics Aug 30, 2005
...symptoms to go back to bed. Another told a caller describing signs of bubonic plague not to worry. The RAND study, funded by the ...
- Leading The Charge
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