The emergence and spread of infectious diseases with pandemic potential occurred
regularly throughout history. Major pandemics and epidemics such as plague, cholera, flu …

SUMMARY The Gram-negative bacterium Yersinia pestis is responsible for deadly plague, a
zoonotic disease established in stable foci in the Americas, Africa, and Eurasia. Its …

During the fourteenth century, the bubonic plague or Black Death killed more than one third
of Europe or 25 million people. Those afflicted died quickly and horribly from an unseen …

The health system's response to the COVID-19 pandemic has involved research into
diagnoses and vaccines, but primarily it has required specific treatments, facilities and …

Plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, can spread through human populations by
multiple transmission pathways. Today, most human plague cases are bubonic, caused by …

How to understand the propagation properties of infectious diseases among the population
is an important topic in the field of epidemic modelling. In this paper, we investigate the …

La peste ha protagonizado la historia del ser humano. A nivel mundial se ha tenido
conocimiento de 3 grandes epidemias: la peste de Justiniano (541), la peste negra (1348) y …

Plague has a long history on the European continent, with evidence of the disease dating
back to the Stone Age. Plague epidemics in Europe during the First and Second Pandemics …

Yersinia pestis, the bacterial causative agent of plague, remains an important threat to
human health. Plague is a rodent-borne disease that has historically shown an outstanding …

Environmentally transmitted diseases are comparatively poorly understood and managed,
and their ecology is particularly understudied. Here we identify challenges of studying …