Plague, the causative agent of three devastating pandemics in history, is currently a re-
emerging disease, probably due to climate change and other anthropogenic changes …

After several pandemics over the last two millennia, the wildlife reservoirs of plague
(Yersinia pestis) now persist around the world, including in the western United States …

Alfani (1) provides important reflections on our recent work, which argues against long-term
wildlife-based plague reservoirs in historical Europe (2). Without natural reservoirs in …

The notions of plague and plagues—recurring morbidity and mortality with slow recovery
after catastrophe—are firmly rooted in virtually all cultures across the globe. Historically …

Plague remains a threat to public health and is considered as a re-emerging infectious
disease today. Rodents play an important role as major hosts in plague persistence and …

Plague is enzootic in wildlife populations of small mammals in central and eastern Asia,
Africa, South and North America, and has been recognized recently as a reemerging threat …

14.1 Background Of all zoonoses, plague has the most notorious record of emergence,
being responsible for three human pandemics since the fifth century AD. The third …

Background Human cases of plague (Yersinia pestis) infection originate, ultimately, in the
bacterium's wildlife host populations. The epidemiological dynamics of the wildlife reservoir …

Wildlife disease is recognized as a burgeoning threat to imperiled species and aspects of
host and vector community ecology have been shown to have significant effects on disease …

For vector‐borne diseases, the abundance and competency of different vector species and
their host preferences will impact the transfer of pathogens among hosts. Sylvatic plague is a …