Report on Experiments Undertaken to Discover whether the Common Domesticated Animals of Terceira Island are Affected by Plague

Abstract

We have recently had the opportunity of studying a plague epidemic that broke out on Terceira Island, Azores, in 1908. Terceira Island contains a population of 45,000 souls, the epidemic spread over 27 parishes. About 260 persons were attacked, with a mortality of about 48%.