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Boisier P Rahalison L Rasolomaharo M Ratsitorahina M Mahafaly M Razafimahefa M et al Epidemiologic Features of Four Successive Annual Outbreaks of Bubonic Plague in Mahajanga Madagascar Emerg Infect Dis 200283311316 httpsdoiorg103201eid0803010250. I chose this piece of work because science is one of my best subjects and I felt that I put a lot of effort into it. I enjoyed doing this so much and I learnt a lot. Not just information on the plague but also researching and presentation skills. I hope you enjoy reading this and learn a bit of history about the plague from the case study. If I was to improve this PowerPoint I would improve the case study by doing MORE research on it, rather then giving up after 20min.. Yersinia. . p. estis. What is the Plague?. Disease Causing Agent. Gram negative, rod shaped bacteria. Yersinia. . pestis. Facultative anaerobe. Discovered in 1894 by Alexander . Yersin. Swiss/French Physician and Bacteriologist. Shada Aimadeddine, Iyobo Aimiuwu, and Hannah Barboza. Health Science Project. August, 31, 2012. History. . The history of the Bubonic Plague  is definite and based on true facts. As more than 70 million people died during the Middle Ages of Bubonic Plague or what they called as Black Death. It almost wiped out the almost all of Europe’s population, because the infection was so widespread that it spread to up to 60 percent of the population.. encouraged to reuse our maps and graphs . for your own . purposes and free to translate, . provided the . content is not altered and the source . is acknowledged. . Either copy the images from the following slides or download directly from: . taxonomy. Member of the . Enterobacteriaceae. . family . yersinia. is gram . nagative. . coccobacilli. . 4-. Yersinia.  . General . characteristics. :. -. . Yersinia . 11 What is Plague -Plague is a disease caused by Yersinia pestis a bacterium found in rodents and their fleas in many areas around the world 2 Why are we concerned Plague as a bioweapon If Y pestis is pestis. Black death. taxonomy. Member of the . Enterobacteriaceae. . family . yersinia. is gram . nagative. . coccobacilli. . . . . Yersinia.  . General . Pestis. The Black Death (Bubonic Plague). Origins of the Plague. Began in Asia (the Mongols) and traveled through trade routes to the Middle East and eventually Europe. Battle at . K. affa. Hit Sicily first (1347) – Boat of Dead People Arrives. What Is It? Plague is a bacterial infection caused by Yersinia pestis, a bacteria carried in rodents, such as rats and mice, and their fleas. Plague is rare in the United States but has been found in Messenger SL, Smith JS, Orciari LA, Yager PA, Rupprecht CE. Emerging Pattern of Rabies Deaths and Increased Viral Infectivity. Emerg Infect Dis. 2003;9(2):151-154. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0902.020083. Boisier P, Rahalison L, Rasolomaharo M, Ratsitorahina M, Mahafaly M, Razafimahefa M, et al. Epidemiologic Features of Four Successive Annual Outbreaks of Bubonic Plague in Mahajanga, Madagascar. Emerg Infect Dis. 2002;8(3):311-316. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0803.010250. Luk E, Lo J, Li A, Lau M, Cheung T, Wong A, et al. Scarlet Fever Epidemic, Hong Kong, 2011. Emerg Infect Dis. 2012;18(10):1658-1661. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1810.111900. Drancourt M, Roux V, Dang L, Tran-Hung L, Castex D, Chenal-Francisque V, et al. Genotyping, Orientalis-like Yersinia pestis, and Plague Pandemics. Emerg Infect Dis. 2004;10(9):1585-1592. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1009.030933. Zangpo T, Phuentshok Y, Dorji K, Dorjee C, Dorjee S, Jolly P, et al. Environmental, Occupational, and Demographic Risk Factors for Clinical Scrub Typhus, Bhutan. Emerg Infect Dis. 2023;29(5):909-918. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2905.221430.