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Disease and demographic development: the legacy of the plague [PDF]
Journal of Economic Growth, 2021 This paper provides an empirical investigation of the hypothesis that population shocks such as the repeated outbreaks of the plague affected the timing of the demographic transition.
Fabian Siuda, U. Sunde
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Plague: A Disease Which Changed the Path of Human Civilization [PDF]
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 2016 Plague caused by Yersinia pestis is a zoonotic infection, i.e., it is maintained in wildlife by animal reservoirs and on occasion spills over into human populations, causing outbreaks of different entities. Large epidemics of plague, which have had significant demographic, social, and economic consequences, have been recorded in Western European ...
Barbara Bramanti +3 more
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Plague: A Millenary Infectious Disease Reemerging in the XXI Century [PDF]
BioMed Research International, 2017 Plague, in the Middle Ages known as Black Death, continues to occur at permanent foci in many countries, in Africa, Asia, South America, and even the USA.
A. Grácio, M. Grácio
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Modeling the Impact of White-Plague Coral Disease in Climate Change Scenarios
PLoS Comput. Biol., 2015 Coral reefs are in global decline, with coral diseases increasing both in prevalence and in space, a situation that is expected only to worsen as future thermal stressors increase.
Assaf Zvuloni +4 more
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Plague: From Natural Disease to Bioterrorism [PDF]
Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, 2005 Yersinia pestis is the causative agent of plague, an enzootic vectorborne disease usually infecting rodents (rats) and fleas. Humans can become infected after being bitten by fleas that have fed on infected rodents. In humans, the disease usually occurs in the form of bubonic plague. In rare cases, the infection spreads to the lungs via the bloodstream
Stefan Riedel
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Potential role of viruses in white plague coral disease [PDF]
The ISME Journal, 2013 White plague (WP)-like diseases of tropical corals are implicated in reef decline worldwide, although their etiological cause is generally unknown. Studies thus far have focused on bacterial or eukaryotic pathogens as the source of these diseases; no ...
N. Soffer +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2013 Coral disease is a global problem. Diseases are typically named or described based on macroscopic changes, but broad signs of coral distress such as tissue loss or discoloration are unlikely to be specific to a particular pathogen.
Christina A. Kellogg +6 more
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Disease and Literature. The Plague [PDF]
ANALES RANM, 2019 Luís María GilCarcedo-García +1 more
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THE COINCIDENCE OF DISEASES : PLAGUE AND ITS ASSOCIATES. [PDF]
The Lancet, 1899 n ...
Frederick Pearse
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Infectious Disease. Plague Linked to Precipitation
Environmental Health Perspectives, 2000 Bob Weinhold
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