A Review of Recent Literature on Plague

Overview

Journal Bull World Health Organ

Specialty Public Health

Date 1960 Jan 1

PMID 13736873

Citations 14

Authors

R Pollitzer

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Abstract

In his comprehensive monograph on plague, published by WHO in 1954, Dr Pollitzer pointed out that despite the marked drop in the incidence of this disease in recent years, he considered it impossible for various reasons to be complacent about the situation. Since this monograph appeared, plague has shown a truly spectacular decrease, but in case this is partly the outcome of a natural periodicity of the infection, the author still feels that the disease "should be given continued attention by those interested in global public health". To this end he summarizes here the latest information on the subject, his review covering not only works published since 1954, but also some earlier literature (particularly from the USSR) which was not available to him at the time of preparation of his monograph.

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