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Benedictow, Ole Jørgen, The Black Death and Later Plague Epidemics in the Scandinavian Countries: Perspectives and Controversies, Berlin, De Greuter, 2016, 736 pp.
- Resum
- The book provides much new work on the Black Death in the Scandinavian countries, but also translations of works that so far has not been available in English. It also contains several long chapters that relate thoroughly to questions and controversies with respect to the presence of black rats in the Nordic countries (pp. 395-451 with three maps), transmission and dissemination by human ectoparasites, and the early-phase transmission theory or hypothesis rather (as long as its advocates cannot explain how plague bacteria in the gut of fleas are moved against the strong stream of a new feed of blood into the bite site). This involves also the gathering together and presentation of all data on plague bacteraemia in rats and human beings to clarify their potential roles as sources of infection of feeding fleas and lice, the prevalence of bacteremia in rats and human beings, and the number plague bacteria contained in mL (mm3) of blood, the volume of blood they ingest (µL), and, thus, the potential role of human ectoparasites and rat fleas in the transmission and dissemination of plague bacteria. Finally, there is discussion of values of Lethal Doses of transmission in the case of human beings and the presence and conditions for transmission of LDs of plague bacteria. There are also studies of the pattern, rhythm and seasonality of spread of plague epidemics as sources of information on the , seen as reflections of the process of transmission and dissemination.
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Medicina - Pesta i altres malalties
- URL
- https://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/212904
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