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14वीं शताब्दी में प्लेग को ‘ब्लैक डेथ’ के रूप में जा…
Plague bacteria may be hiding in common soil or water microbes, waiting to emerge
Where do plague bacteria go between outbreaks? New research demonstrates that they can survive and replicate inside amoebae that are widely …
Two cases of pneumonic plague reported in northern China
Chinese officials downplay, say both patients are being treated as rules mandate
Plague puzzle
Mystifying the plague
The return of a scourge
Plague case causes alarm
French researchers have identified the first case of bubonic plague resistant to antibiotics
Inviting the plague
With all its wealth and affluence, Surat remains the least concerned about health and hygiene
Anatomy of the plague
The Black Death is an established phenomenon the world over, so there is no point pillorying India alone
Tiny terrors
Ecological changes have favoured their growth. They cannot be decimated. Then how do you cope with this rodent problem, asks ANAMITRA CHOUDHURY
Plague kills 40 in Africa’s Madagascar, El Nino blamed
High level of resistance to deltamethrin, an insecticide used to control fleas, has complicated the problem
"India's health infrastructure was never something to be pround of"
The panic created when the plague rippled out from Surat and threatened other parts of the country exposed India's complete lack of resources for …
Plaguing the question
The empire strikes back
Despite the progress in medical science, many old and new diseases seem to dodge us. Microbes which we bade farewell to, are raising their ugly …
Plagued
It's time plague sheds its horror image
Unravelling the Bombay plague
Room 000: Narratives Of The Bombay Plague is the story of the plague that killed thousands in Mumbai in the late 1890s. Very little was known …
Slippery bacillus
Despite desperate combing operations, the plague bacillus is playing hide-and-seek with doctors
Rehabilitation measures denounced
Polemics over a pest
A controversy rages over whether the Surat plague bacillus was a secret hardsell by a Kazakh chemical firm
Will plague return?
A plague bacterium that has developed resistance to several antibiotics may pose a serious threat to human health
The plague took us by surprise
ASHISH KUMAR MUKHERJEE is the Director General of Health Services (DGHS), and as the country's topmost health bureaucrat, was the man …
Plagueing policies
Stalking plague
PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT — THE PLAGUE IN SURAT·Ghanshyam Shah· Sage Publications, New Delhi·Rs 395
A plague on this country
The plague today holds the same threshold of dread that it did in the 14th century. So when the Black Death struck India late last month, the …
An uncelebrated genius
Book>> Plague And Cholera • by Patrick Deville • Little Brown • US $17