China reports case of suspected bubonic plague
It's in Inner Mongolia and comes as China says it's wrestled new cases of COVID-19 to near zero. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - July 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Bubonic Plague Found in a Herder in Inner Mongolia, China Says
A city put control measures in place after one confirmed case of the disease, which caused the Black Death in the Middle Ages. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - July 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Austin Ramzy Tags: Inner Mongolia Bubonic Plague China Source Type: news
What is bubonic plague?
Authorities in China have stepped up precautions after a reports of a suspected case. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - July 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
China's Inner Mongolia region reports bubonic plague case
While China appears to have reduced coronavirus cases to near zero, other infectious threats remain, with local health authorities announcing a suspected bubonic plague case in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - July 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Bubonic Plague Warning In China ’s Inner Mongolia, Here Is What It Means
In Bayan Nur, there ’s a suspected case of the bubonic plague, which is caused by the Yersnia pestis bacteria. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - July 6, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Bruce Y. Lee, Senior Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation Science /science Editors' Pick editors-pick business pharma Source Type: news
NIH study shows genomic variation causing common autoinflammatory disease may increase resilience to bubonic plague
Genomic variants that cause common periodic fever have spread in Mediterranean populations over centuries, potentially protecting people from the plague. (Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases)
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases - June 29, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: news
How Pandemics End
An infectious outbreak can conclude in more ways than one, historians say. But for whom does it end, and who gets to decide? (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - May 10, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Gina Kolata Tags: Epidemics Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Plague Smallpox Ebola Virus Influenza Epidemic (1918-19) Rats Antibiotics Bubonic Plague Fleas Microbiology Deaths (Fatalities) Vaccination and Immunization your-feed-science your-feed-health Source Type: news
Public Health and Epidemics
By Jan LundiusSTOCKHOLM / ROME, Apr 30 2020 (IPS) For some time Wuhan in China and Lombardy in Italy were epicentres of the COVID-19 virus, something that has changed when the contagion is spreading fast in the US. A Lombardy in the grip of a deadly epidemic might among several Italians give rise to memories of their school days. For almost a century, Alessando Manzoni’s massive novel The Betrothed (I promessi sposi) from 1842 has been obligatory reading for all Italians during their last primary school year. A quite impressive endeavour considering that the novel is more than 700 pages long.
I assume almost every adult...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 30, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jan Lundius Tags: Arts Economy & Trade Global Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
The Theology of Pandemics
Credit: Human Rights Center, University of Dayton, OhioBy Sam Ben-MeirNEW YORK, Apr 21 2020 (IPS) Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 film The Seventh Seal is set in medieval Sweden, as the bubonic plague ravages the countryside. In one famous scene, a procession of zombie-like flagellants enters a village and interrupts a comic stage-show.
The townspeople are present to hear the procession’s leader, a bombastic preacher who proclaims that death is coming for them all: they are full of sin – lustful and gluttonous – and the plague is God’s punishment for their wicked ways.
That scene is not without historical merit: the flag...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 21, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sam Ben-Meir Tags: Development & Aid Featured Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
How Bubonic Plague Has Helped Russia Fight the Coronavirus
A network of health centers formed by the Soviet Union in the 1920s is providing expertise in quarantines and epidemic response for Covid-19. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 15, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Andrew E. Kramer Tags: Quarantines Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Plague Kyrgyzstan USSR (Former Soviet Union) Source Type: news
Column: Bubonic plague in Europe changed art history. Why coronavirus could do the same
A painting revolution was ready to take off in the 14th century, but then the plague hit Italy. What lessons does that hold about our own art future? (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - March 29, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christopher Knight Source Type: news
Uncertain times, unclear measures in coronavirus pandemic
Perspective missing
“We’ve never seen anything like this in the history of the planet,”
That was Gov. David Ige speaking at his Saturday press conference announcing a mandatory two-week self-quarantine for anyone getting off a plane in Hawaii.
He was speaking of the coronavirus itself, and I couldn’t believ e my ears.
The history of the planet?
Bubonic Plague wants to know what it needs to do to get remembered, because killing 60% of everyone in Europe apparently wasn’t enough. Small… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - March 27, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: A. Kam Napier Source Type: news
This champion academic decathlon team studied pandemics. Now, they're living one
The Bell High School academic decathlon team, the L.A. area champions, studied bubonic plague and other epidemics before the coronavirus broke out. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - March 26, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Howard Blume Source Type: news
Pandemic postpones Oberammergau 'Passion Play,' itself a response to a plague
The play, created during a bout of bubonic plague in 1632, has been performed every 10 years since. It will be postponed to 2022. (Source: L.A. Times - Health)
Source: L.A. Times - Health - March 20, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erik Kirschbaum Source Type: news
Coronavirus vs Black Death: Which is worse? COVID-19 or the bubonic plague?
CORONAVIRUS cases are increasing every day and the virus has spread to countries across the globe. But is COVID-19 worse than the Black Death? (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - March 8, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
