My curriculum vitae can be accessed on this site. I now hope to expand my educational and consultative services through the power of the internet. I appreciate your visit to this site and would greatly value any feedback or input provided. Over the years I have grown quite interested in medical history. I thought many of you might enjoy knowing how the history of one of the most dreaded diseases ever know to man, the Bubonic Plague, played a role in the development of a well known nursery rhyme.
Bubonic plague is a severe infection in humans and many species of rodents.
Plague pneumonia, or pneumonic plague, is caused by the same bacteria as bubonic plague but the victim becomes infected by inhaling infected droplets from the lungs of someone whose plague infection has spread to the respiratory system. This is the most contagious form of the disease and the form that progresses most rapidly, with death usually occurring in less than three days in virtually all untreated cases. For hundreds of years, children have chanted this rhyme, without ever realizing its meaning. We all fall down. The rosies referred rosary beads, used for praying for help.