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Are local plague endemicity and ecological characteristics of vectors and reservoirs related? A case study in north-east Tanzania

open access: yesCurrent Zoology, 2009
The pattern of plague endemicity in Tanzania is characterized by continuous re-appearance of the disease in some locations, while in other neighbouring villages the disease has never or seldom been observed. To understand the reasons for this pattern, we
Herwig LEIRS   +4 more
doaj  

Biological Terrorism, Emerging Diseases, and National Security [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
Examines the extent to which bioterrorist attacks have proven or may prove difficult to distinguish from outbreaks of emerging diseases. Makes recommendations for how the U.S.
Christopher F. Chyba
core  

Community‐engaged crime prevention through environmental design and reductions in violent and firearm crime

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the U.S., crime and violence are concentrated in cities that have lost industry and population due to economic disinvestment and structurally racist policies. Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers have called for community‐level approaches that reduce violence in these cities by improving unsafe physical environments, increasing ...
Laney A. Rupp   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Plague: Antique and Medieval Emerging Infectious Disease [PDF]

open access: yesClinical Microbiology: Open Access, 2016
Plague is a well-known disease caused by Yersinia pestis, with the potential to cause significant morbidity and mortality in humans and major public health impacts. Many animal species are sensible to the disease and some play important epidemiological role in sylvatic and domestic cycles.
openaire   +1 more source

The history of anatomical engagement

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract The public's fascination with anatomy has evolved over time and progressed from avoidance of the tainted yet saintly corpse, to their fascination with cabinets of curiosities. The current narrative review explores public engagement (PE), from its potential origins as cave paintings, to the rise of the disciplinarity of anatomy.
Quenton Wessels, Adam M. Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

Shift from primary pneumonic to secondary septicemic plague by decreasing the volume of intranasal challenge with Yersinia pestis in the murine model.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2019
Yersinia pestis is the causative agent of pneumonic plague, a disease involving uncontrolled bacterial growth and host immunopathology. Secondary septicemic plague commonly occurs as a consequence of the host inflammatory response that causes ...
Rachel M Olson, Deborah M Anderson
doaj   +1 more source

The Socio-Economic Relations of Warfare and the Military Mortality Crises of the Thirty Years' War [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Michael Flinn wrote that the Thirty Years' War, fought in central Europe between 1618 and 1648, "remains the classic study of the military causation of mortality crises".' Despite these words, the Thirty Years' War has rarely been studied from this ...
Outram, Q.
core   +1 more source

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