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Plague is a severe disease caused by the bacteria, Yersinia pestis. It has several forms - bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, and septicemic plague. It can be successfully treated with antibiotics if the disease is recognized in time. This is the disease that caused the "black death" throughout history. It is transmitted by fleas from infected rats and other rodents. It can also spread person to person via body fluids and aerosol droplets.

Resources in This Category

• Awesome Stories: Black Death

  http://www.awesomestories.com/disasters/black-death
  Article by Carole D. Bos on this disease and its devastating effects during the Middle Ages.

• Bubonic Plague and the Black Death

  http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-bubonic-plague-black-death.htm
  Provides information on the effects, history, symptoms, treatment and origins of the Bubonic Plague commonly referred to as The Black Death.

• CDC Plague

  http://www.cdc.gov/plague/
  Includes symptoms, history, treatment, epidemiology, prevention and control, and scientific literature.

• CIDRAP Plague Home Page

  http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/bt/plague/
  Medical overview aimed at clinicians in identifying and treating plague, along with updated news and links related to the disease.

• Decameron Web: The Plague

  http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/plague/
  Features contemporary perspectives, origins, causes and social effects.

• eMedicine - Bubonic Plague

  http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/829233-overview
  A physician's report on bubonic plague infection, transmission patterns, and associated symptoms. Includes pictures of bubonic plague patients as well as a review of septicemic plague and pneumonic plague.

• eMedicine - Plague

  http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/235627-overview
  Article by Venkat R Minnaganti, MD.

• eMedicine - Plague

  http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/967495-overview
  Article by Robert D Schremmer, MD.

• eMedicine Health - Plague

  http://www.emedicinehealth.com/plague/article_em.htm
  Features cause, symptoms, diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, and treatment.

• Mayo Clinic - Plague

  http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/plague/home/ovc-20196753
  Includes cause, symptoms and signs, risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

• MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Plague

  https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000596.htm
  Factsheet with causes, risk factors, symptoms, treatment, diagnosis, complications, and prevention.

• MedlinePlus: Plague

  https://medlineplus.gov/plague.html
  Directory of news stories, factsheets, and articles.

• Multidrug Resistance in Yersinia Pestis Mediated by a Transferable Plasmid

  http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199709043371004
  Article discusses antibiotic and multidrug resistance in Yersinia Pestis, the causative agent of Plague. Published by The New England Journal of Medicine.

• Plague

  http://www.who.int/csr/disease/plague/en/index.html
  World Health Organization information on plague, focusing on recent outbreaks and epidemics.

• Plague in England

  http://www.urbanrim.org.uk/plague%20list.htm
  A list of epidemics of the disease between 1348 and 1665. Includes references.

• Plague: Yersinia pestis

  http://www.atsu.edu/faculty/chamberlain/Website/lectures/lecture/plague.htm
  Scientific and medical information about the organism and disease.

• Russell Kightley Media

  http://www.rkm.com.au/PLAGUE/index.html
  Computer graphic showing the structure of Yersinia pestis with an explanation and references.

• TED Cast Study Bubonic Plague

  http://www1.american.edu/TED/bubonic.htm
  The role of trade in transmitting the Black Death.

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