Plague

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Epidemiological characteristics of an urban plague epidemic in Madagascar, August–November, 2017: an outbreak report    The Lancet Madagascar accounts for 75% of global plague cases reported to WHO, with an annual incidence of 200–700 suspected cases (mainly bubonic plague). In 2017 ... https://ift.tt/2V1Qi1u

Since he was a kid Dr. Daniel Kalla has had a bit of a thing for the Black Death . “We grow up as kids with nursery rhymes and stories about it. I was fascinated by it,” Kalla recently told Postmedia. “It still remains the biggest natural disaster in terms of lives lost. “That’s how a disastrous of an event it really was. I was culturally aware of it.” For the record the most common estimate is that the deadly disease killed off one third of Europe from 1347 to 1351. Kalla, who is the head of the Emergency Medicine Department at St. Paul’s Hospital in B.C., has taken that long running curiosity of the plague that flattened Europe in the mid 14th century and put it front and centre in his new, just released, novel "  We All Fall Down ." “I learned so much of my history growing up by reading James Michener and these people who take real history and put a couple of characters you can relate to behind it and I’m trying to do the same thing in this case with some history of ...

Since he was a kid Dr. Daniel Kalla has had a bit of a thing for the Black Death . “We grow up as kids with nursery rhymes and stories about it. I was fascinated by it,” Kalla recently told Postmedia. “It still remains the biggest natural disaster in terms of lives lost. “That’s how a disastrous of an event it really was. I was culturally aware of it.” For the record the most common estimate is that the deadly disease killed off one third of Europe from 1347 to 1351. Kalla, who is the head of the Emergency Medicine Department at St. Paul’s Hospital in B.C., has taken that long running curiosity of the plague that flattened Europe in the mid 14th century and put it front and centre in his new, just released, novel "  We All Fall Down ." “I learned so much of my history growing up by reading James Michener and these people who take real history and put a couple of characters you can relate to behind it and I’m trying to do the same thing in this case with some history of ...