A Tribute to Henri H. Mollaret (1923–2008)

Lessons Learned from Historic Plague Epidemics: The Relevance of an Ancient Disease in Modern Times

“…Other noteworthy advances in understanding and combating plague include Ricardo Jorge's 1927 discovery of the role of wild living rodents as reservoirs for the endemic form of plague [48] and Henri Mollaret's work describing the "burrow-rodent-burrow" cycle in the transmission of Y. pestis [49]. Concluding this review of plague history, it must be recognized that most scholars support the theory that the third pandemic is still ongoing at the present time.…”