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Latest News  

Oct 8
New Item Wildlife group lists diseases that global warming may spur

Oct 16, 2007
New Item US funds work on drugs for plague, tularemia, anthrax

Mar 30, 2007
New Item Study: Drug-resistant plague may signal health threat

Dec 11, 2006
New Item CDC rates hospital bioterrorism preparedness

Oct 19, 2006
New Item Suspected plague killed 42 in Congo, WHO says

Jun 26, 2006
New Item Aid group seeks help fighting plague in Congo

Jun 14, 2006
New Item Suspected plague kills 100 in Congo, WHO says

Aug 19, 2005
New Item Research sheds light on plague agent and potential vaccine

May 27, 2005
New Item Plague outbreak highlighted ongoing problem in Africa

Apr 21, 2005
New Item US, UK, Canada to jointly test plague vaccines

Mar 15, 2005
New Item WHO reports 130 suspected plague cases in Congo

Mar 4, 2005
New Item 57 plague cases found in Congo, WHO reports

Mar 2, 2005
New Item Congo's plague outbreak smaller than initially feared

Feb 18, 2005
New Item Pneumonic plague outbreak in Congo sparks WHO response

Sep 15, 2004
New Item Plague organism shed genes as it grew more lethal

Aug 2, 2004
New Item Ongoing plague outbreak reported in Congo

Mar 25, 2004
New Item Vaccine prevents flea-borne plague in mice

Jan 17, 2003
New Item Report of missing plague specimens in Texas was false alarm

May 2, 2002
New Item Single gene change enabled plague bacterium to ride in fleas

Oct 17, 2001
New Item Plague genome suggests organism evolved from gut to blood pathogen

      
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New Item Venetian rule and control of plague epidemics on the Ionian Islands during 17th and 18th centuries
From Emerg Infect Dis, published online Dec 23

 
New Item Plague: Current, comprehensive information on pathogenesis, microbiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment
CIDRAP-authored overview, updated Dec 17 with new research


 
New Item An IL-12 DNA vaccine co-expressing Yersinia pestis antigens protects against pneumonic plague
From Jan 1 Vaccine

 
New Item Serologic survey of the sentinel animals for plague surveillance and screening for complementary diagnostic markers to F1 antigen by protein microarray
From Nov Am J Trop Med Hyg

 
New Item A fusion protein, flagellin/F1/V, is an effective plague vaccine in mice and two species of nonhuman primates
From Clin Vaccine Immunol, published online Nov 5

 
New Item Scavenging by mammalian carnivores on prairie dog colonies: implications for the spread of plague
From Vector-Borne Zoonotic Dis, published online Oct 22

 
New Item Geographic distribution and ecological niche of plague in sub-Saharan Africa
From Int J Health Geogr, published online Oct 23

 
New Item Immune defense against pneumonic plague
From Oct Immunol Rev

 
New Item Immunization with recombinant V10 protects Cynomolgus macaques from lethal pneumonic plague
From Infect Immun, published online Sep 15

 
New Item Preliminary validation of real-time PCR assays for the identification of Yersinia pestis
from Sep Clin Chem Lab Med

 
New Item An alternative approach to combination vaccines: intradermal administration of isolated components for control of anthrax, botulism, plague, and staphylococcal toxic shock
From J Immune Based Ther Vaccines, published online Sep 3

 
New Item Human plague in the USA: the importance of regional and local climate
From Biol Lett, published online Sep 2

 
New Item Long-term persistence of virulent Yersinia pestis in soil
From Sep Microbiology

 
New Item Effective plague vaccination via oral delivery of plant cells expressing F1-V antigens in chloroplasts
From Aug Infect Immun

 
New Item Induction of innate immunity by lipid A mimetics increases survival from pneumonic plague
From Jul Microbiology

 
New Item Septicemic plague in a community hospital in California
From Jun Am J Trop Med Hyg