Tauni

Tauni (au kipukusa; kwa Kiingereza: plague au pestilence) ni ugonjwa unaoambukiza watu wengi sana unaosababishwa na bakteria Yersinia pestis ya familia Enterobacteriaceae. 

Inapatikana kwa kawaida katika maeneo kadhaa ya dunia yasiyo na maendeleo.

Kadiri ya athira juu ya mapafu na hali nyingine za mgonjwa, inaweza kuenea kupitia hewa, kwa kugusana na kwa nadra kwa njia ya chakula kisichopikwa vya kutosha. 

Dalili zinategemea ugonjwa umemshika mtu wapi zaidi: tezi, mishipa ya damu au mapafu. 

Tiba ikiwahi inaweza kumponya mtu. 

Historia
Zamani tauni iliua watu wengi: kwa miaka michache hata nusu ya Wachina wote, halafu theluthi ya Wazungu wote.

Biblia inazungumzia ugonjwa huo.

Barani Afrika ugonjwa ulienea mara kadhaa, lakini mtawanyiko wa watu katika maeneo makubwa haukuisaidia tauni kuwapata watu wengi zaidi kama kwenye msongamano mkubwa.

Ni maarufu juhudi za Wajerumani kukomesha tauni katika koloni lao la Afrika Mashariki ya Kijerumani mwishoni mwa karne ya 19 kwa kulipa kiasi kadhaa kwa kila mzoga wa panya, mnyama anayesambaza bakteria hizo kupitia viroboto wake.Pugu Hadi Peramiho - kimehaririwa na P. Gerold Rupper, OSB, BPNP, Peramiho 1988, ISBN 9967 67 031 1

Tanbihi

 Tazama Pia 
Tauni ya Kucheza dansi ya 1518
Marejeo

 Weatherford 2004: 242-250

 Biraben, Jean-Noel. Les Hommes et la Peste The Hague 1975.
 Buckler, John and Bennet D. Hill and John P. McKay. "A History of Western Society, 5th Edition." New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1995.

 . this manuscript reports a census of potential plague vectors (rodents and fleas) in a Brazilian focus region (i.e. region associated with cases of disease); free PDF download Retrieved 2005-03-02









 Patrick, Adam. "Disease in Antiquity: Ancient Greece and Rome," in Diseases in Antiquity, editors: Don Brothwell and A. T. Sandison. Springfield, Illinois; Charles C. Thomas, 1967.
 Platt, Colin. King Death: The Black Death and its Aftermath in Late-Medieval England Toronto University Press, 1997.

 Simpson, W. J. A Treatise on Plague. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1905.


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 World Health Organization
 Health topic
 Communicable Disease Surveillance & Response – Impact of plague & Information resources
 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
 CDC Plague map world distribution, publications, information on bioterrorism preparedness and response regarding plague
 Infectious Disease Information more links including travelers' health
 Agent Fact Sheet: Plague , Center for Biosecurity
 Symptoms, causes, pictures of bubonic plague
 Secrets of the Dead. Mystery of the Black Death  PBS

 Researchers sound the alarm: the multidrug resistance of the plague bacillus could spread 
 Plague - LoveToKnow 1911
 Genome information is available from the NIAID PathoSystems Resource Integration Center (PATRIC) 

Jamii:Magonjwa ya bakteria