Infectious diseases emerge via many routes and may need to overcome stepwise
bottlenecks to burgeon into epidemics and pandemics. About 60% of human infections have …

This book develops an examination and critique of human extinction as a result of the 'next
pandemic'and turns attention towards the role of pandemic catastrophe in the renegotiation …

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent
chapters of this book. The book begins with the middle ages when urban centres were …

Best known for its development and impact on city-ports such as Buenos Aires and Rosario,
the spread of the third plague pandemic in Argentina led to the establishment of foci in the …

Hiding in vessels of various kinds–ships, train-wagons, cars–and feeding on grain and other
human food stores, rats, in modern times, carried bubonic plague around the world. By the …

In 1899, the first cases of plague were recognised in Paraguay and a few months later in
Buenos Aires as part of the third plague pandemic. In the first decades of the twentieth …

Rural Disease Knowledge examines the ways in which knowledge of rural spaces and
environments, on the one hand, and infectious diseases, on the other, have become inter …

In this chapter, we present a review of the historical, epidemiological, clinical, and diagnostic
aspects of plague, a zoonosis caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which has rodents …

It is almost impossible to find a plague-related news item today that is not accompanied by
an image of a rat. The best-known carriers of zoonotic diseases, rats are so closely identified …

Text source notes totalled well over 800 in less than half that number of pages. Frequently
these source notes have multiple references. Four long appendices which are reproduced …