Historical and genomic data reveal the influencing factors on global transmission velocity of plague during the Third Pandemic [Environmental Sciences]

Quantitative knowledge about which natural and anthropogenic factors influence the global spread of plague remains sparse. We estimated the worldwide spreading velocity of plague during the Third Pandemic, using more than 200 years of extensive human plague case records and genomic data, and analyzed the association of spatiotemporal environmental factors...

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - June 10, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Lei Xu, Leif C. Stige, Herwig Leirs, Simon Neerinckx, Kenneth L. Gage, Ruifu Yang, Qiyong Liu, Barbara Bramanti, Katharine R. Dean, Hui Tang, Zhe Sun, Nils Chr. Stenseth, Zhibin Zhang Tags: Biological Sciences Source Type: research