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  1. Plague - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Jul 7, 2022 · Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis, a zoonotic bacteria, usually found in small mammals and their fleas. It is transmitted between animals …

  2. Plague - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Sep 25, 2024 · Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis, usually found in small mammals and their fleas.

  3. Plague - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Oct 23, 2017 · Plague is an infectious disease found in some small mammals and their fleas. People can contract plague if they are in bitten by infected fleas, and develop the bubonic form …

  4. Plague Outbreak Toolbox - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Welcome to the Plague Outbreak Toolbox Key reference documents Plague information page (Geneva: World Health Organization; 2018). Plague fact sheet (Geneva: World Health …

  5. Plague - Madagascar - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Oct 1, 2021 · Plague is endemic in Madagascar and outbreaks occur regularly, although every outbreak is cause for concern. Furthermore, pneumonic plague is a notifiable disease under …

  6. Plague: enhancing country readiness

    Nov 1, 2015 · To strengthen the readiness and response capacity of those countries at risk from major epidemic-prone diseases such as plague, WHO provides international technical …

  7. Manual for plague surveillance, diagnosis, prevention and control

    Sep 25, 2024 · Plague has caused millions of deaths in pandemics over the past 2,500 years. Re-emerging in several countries during the 1990s, it is now considered a public health …

  8. R&D Blueprint and Plague - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Jan 8, 2018 · Plague is an infectious disease caused by Yersinia pestis, a zoonotic bacterium, usually found in small mammals and their fleas. As an animal disease, plague is found in all …

  9. Plague – Madagascar - World Health Organization (WHO)

    Nov 15, 2017 · Since 1 August 2017, Madagascar has been experiencing a large outbreak of plague. As of 10 November 2017, a total of 2119 confirmed, probable and suspected cases of …

  10. Encounters with plague: tracing and preventing illness

    Nov 7, 2017 · In Madagascar, where a severe plague epidemic has unfolded since August 2017, the number of new infections is finally in decline. WHO is supporting health authorities to …