Social vulnerability and pneumonic plague: revisiting the 1994 outbreak in Surat, India

Barnes, Kent B.

doi:10.1080/17477891.2014.892867

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“…The reasons for the apparent disappearance of this historic natural plague focus are, however, unknown, and any single model proposed for plague’s disappearance is likely to be overly simplistic. Pre-industrial Europe shared many of the same conditions that are correlated with plague dissemination today including pronounced social inequality, and poor sanitation coupled with high population density in urban centers ( Vogler et al, 2011 ; Barnes, 2014 ). This constellation of anthropogenic factors, along with the significant social and environmental changes that occurred during the Industrial Revolution must be considered alongside models of climate and vector-driven dynamics as contributing to the rapid decline in historical European plague outbreaks, where genomic data provide but one piece of critical information in this consilient approach.…”

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Eighteenth century Yersinia pestis genomes reveal the long-term persistence of an historical plague focus

Bos

Herbig

Sahl

et al. 2016

eLife

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The 14th–18th century pandemic of Yersinia pestis caused devastating disease outbreaks in Europe for almost 400 years. The reasons for plague’s persistence and abrupt disappearance in Europe are poorly understood, but could have been due to either the presence of now-extinct plague foci in Europe itself, or successive disease introductions from other locations. Here we present five Y. pestis genomes from one of the last European outbreaks of plague, from 1722 in Marseille, France. The lineage identified has not been found in any extant Y. pestis foci sampled to date, and has its ancestry in strains obtained from victims of the 14th century Black Death. These data suggest the existence of a previously uncharacterized historical plague focus that persisted for at least three centuries. We propose that this disease source may have been responsible for the many resurgences of plague in Europe following the Black Death.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.12994.001

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Eighteenth century Yersinia pestis genomes reveal the long-term persistence of an historical plague focus

Bos

Herbig

Sahl

et al. 2016

eLife

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“…The reasons for the apparent disappearance of this historic natural plague focus are, however, unknown, and any single model proposed for plague’s disappearance is likely to be overly simplistic. Pre-industrial Europe shared many of the same conditions that are correlated with plague dissemination today including pronounced social inequality, and poor sanitation coupled with high population density in urban centers (Volger et al, 2005; Barnes, 2014). This constellation of anthropogenic factors, along with the significant social and environmental changes that occurred during the Industrial Revolution must be considered alongside models of climate and vector-driven dynamics as contributing to the rapid decline in historical European plague outbreaks, where genomic data provide but one piece of critical information in this consilient approach.…”

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confidence: 99%

Eighteenth century Yersinia pestis genomes reveal the long-term persistence of an historical plague focus

Bos

Herbig

Sahl

et al. 2016

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“…11 On the contrary, Surat's miserable epidemic of pneumonic plague in 1994 was mainly ascribed to the lack of any restriction on people's movement. 12 It's noteworthy that all of China's strategies are essentially for infectious sources, transmission routes, and population susceptibility to eliminate public health hazards, more than the external representation of traffic barring. Since Wuhan firstly introduced precise community-based public health management on February 11, the daily new increasing curve and the estimates of the effective reproduction number (Rt) sharply declined to zero.…”

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Precise Community-Based Public Health Management: Crucial Experience Responding to COVID-19 in Wuhan, China

Li¹,

Tan²,

Zhang

2022

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Introduction: Facing a grim public challenge caused by COVID-19, many countries decide to live with it for a long time, whereas China continues to enforce precise community-based public health management. This paper summarized China's approaches and aimed to provide illumination for health services decision-makers. Methods: We systematically reviewed the construction of precise community-based public health management from three aspects: organizational structure, service content, and flexible adjustment, and summed up four essential elements for success. Then, we selected 9 typical countries to compare their non-pharmaceutical strategies and daily new cases. Results: China's community-based public health management has a clear four-level organizational structure. It has worked on infection control, surveillance for new cases, management of contacts, health education, medicare service, outdoor environment disinfection, and living material supply in different stages, and the daily new confirmed cases in Wuhan sustainedly declined to zero. The outbreak was relatively well contained in China, Italy, and Germany as of June 2020, as they adopted stricter movement restrictions, social distance, and patient tracking. Conclusion: China's experience has proved the feasibility of non-pharmaceutical strategies responding to COVID-19. The precise community-based public health management strategy can be considered, as it's pretty much the same as public health and social measures (PHSMs) advocated by WHO.

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Social vulnerability and pneumonic plague: revisiting the 1994 outbreak in Surat, India

Cited by 8 publications

References 43 publications

Eighteenth century Yersinia pestis genomes reveal the long-term persistence of an historical plague focus

Eighteenth century Yersinia pestis genomes reveal the long-term persistence of an historical plague focus

Eighteenth century Yersinia pestis genomes reveal the long-term persistence of an historical plague focus

Precise Community-Based Public Health Management: Crucial Experience Responding to COVID-19 in Wuhan, China

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