MODERN CONCEPTS OF PLAGUE CONTROL
Authors: FRED R. MCCRUMB
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1958)

Editorial1 December 1958MODERN CONCEPTS OF PLAGUE CONTROLFRED R. MCCRUMB JR., M.D.FRED R. MCCRUMB JR., M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-49-6-1446 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe causative agent of the human disease, plague, was first accurately described by Yersin in Hong Kong in the year 1894. Since that time much has been written about the bacillus of Yersin and great strides have been made in the control of this disease. It is a tribute to man's perseverance that thousands of physicians, public health workers, entomologists and other biological scientists have given freely of their time and even their lives in an attempt to control this scourge of mankind. Spread of the modern pandemic from foci in Asia eastward to the endemic regions of today in...1 Kalmbach ER: "Ten-Eighty," a war-produced rodenticide, Science 102: 232, 1945. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2 Long JD: Choice of rat poison in antiplague work; rat poisons used by National Antiplague Services of Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and Argentine Republic, Pub. Health Rep. 51: 551, 1936. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3 Richter CP: The development and use of alpha-naphthyl thiourea (antu) as a rat poison, J. A. M. A. 129: 927, 1945. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar4 Communicable Disease Center: Insecticides and rodenticides, Pub. Health Rep. 67: 455, 1952. MedlineGoogle Scholar5 Good NE: Effectiveness of DDT dusting in controlling rat ectoparasites and typhus infection in rats, Communicable Disease Center Bull. 9: 5, 1950. Google Scholar6 Communicable Disease Center Bulletin 10: 4, p. 5, 1951. Google Scholar7 Davis DE: The control of rat fleas (Xenopsylla cheopis) by DDT, Pub. Health Rep. 60: 485, 1945. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar8 Macchiavello A: Plague control with DDT and "1080"; results achieved in plague epidemic at Tumbes, Peru, 1945, Am. J. Pub. Health 36: 842, 1946. CrossrefGoogle Scholar9 Mercier S: La prophylaxie de la peste au moyen des insecticides organiques de synthese a Tananarive: Premiers resultats, Bull. Soc. path. exot. 45: 409, 1952. Google Scholar10 WagleSeal PMSC: Application of DDT, BHC, and cyanogas in the control of plague in India, Bull. World Health Org. 9: 597, 1953. MedlineGoogle Scholar11 SharifSokhey MSS: Report of the Haffkine Institute, 1944-1946, pp. 62, 64. Google Scholar12 YersinCalmetteBorrel AA: La peste bubonique, Ann. Inst. Pasteur 9: 589, 1895. Google Scholar13 Haffkine WM: Remarks on the plague prophylactic fluid, Brit. M. J. 1: 1461, 1897. CrossrefGoogle Scholar14 SokheyHabbu SSMK: Report of the Haffkine Institute, 1944-1946, p. 56. Google Scholar15 GirardRobic GJ: Vaccination contre la peste au moyen d'une souche de bacilles de Yersin, vivants, de virulence attenuee, Bull. Acad. de méd., Paris 111: 939, 1934. Google Scholar16 Otten L: Conference on the Netherlands' Association for Tropical Medicine, Amsterdam, March 25, 1934. Google Scholar17 MeyerFosterBakerSommerLarson KFLEEEHA: Experimental appraisal of antiplague vaccination with dead virulent and living avirulent plague bacilli, Proceedings of the Fourth International Congresses on Tropical Medicine and Malaria, Washington, D. C., May 10-18, 1948. Google Scholar18 Meyer KF: Recent studies on the immunity response to administration of different plague vaccines, Bull. World Health Org. 9: 619, 1953. MedlineGoogle Scholar19 Mercier M: A propos de la guerison de plusieurs cas de peste pulmonaire traites par la streptomycine au lazaret de Tananarive, Bull. Soc. path. exot. 44: 806, 1951. Google Scholar20 McCrumbMercierRobicBouillatSmadelWoodwardGoodner FRSJMJETEK: Chloramphenicol and Terramycin in the treatment of pneumonic plague, Am. J. Med. 14: 284, 1953. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics 1 December 1958Volume 49, Issue 6Page: 1446-1454KeywordsBacillusPlaguePrevention, policy, and public healthScientists Issue Published: 1 December 1958 PDF DownloadLoading ...