An acute infectious disease caused by YERSINIA PESTIS that affects humans, wild rodents, and their ectoparasites. This condition persists due to its firm entrenchment in sylvatic rodent-flea ecosystems throughout the world. Bubonic plague is the most common form.
    

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The Plague Expedition to Anzob in Russian Turkestan. Photograph album by A.M. Levin, 1899.

Plague in Cape Town: convicts cleansing and disinfecting infected buildings. Drawing by H. Johnson, 1891.

Christi eiusque Matris Pietate servata : provisores salutis clodiae : si parte di questa città, per la iddio gratia, libera d'ogni mal contagioso gl'infrascritti per andar ... / Ioan. Bapt. Vianellus Not. Dep.

Loimotomia, or, The pest anatomized : an historical account of the dissection of a pestilential body by the author. Together with the author's apology against the calumnies of the Galenists, and a word to Mr. Nath. Hodges, concerning his late Vindiciae medicinae.

Der schwarze Tod : eine Chronik der Pest 1348-1720, unter Benutzung zeitgenössischer Quellen / bearbeited von Johannes Nohl. Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen.

Processo agli untori : Milano 1630, cronaca e atti giudiziari in edizione integrale / a cura di Giuseppe Farinelli e Ermanno Paccagnini.

People using Anios disinfectant to destroy microbes representing infectious diseases. Colour lithograph by G. de Trye-Maison, ca. 1910.

La peste / Giulia Calvi.

The history of the great plague in London in the year 1665 : containing observations and memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, both public and private, during that dreadful period / by a citizen, who lived the whole time in London.

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Processo agli untori : Milano 1630, cronaca e atti giudiziari in edizione integrale / a cura di Giuseppe Farinelli e Ermanno Paccagnini.

People using Anios disinfectant to destroy microbes representing infectious diseases. Colour lithograph by G. de Trye-Maison, ca. 1910.

La peste / Giulia Calvi.

The history of the great plague in London in the year 1665 : containing observations and memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, both public and private, during that dreadful period / by a citizen, who lived the whole time in London.

Billard, Michael