Plague Disease In India
It is one of the oldest diseases known to man and still occurs in the tropics subtropics and.
Plague disease in india. The 1994 plague in india was an outbreak of bubonic and pneumonic plague in south central and southwestern india from 26 august to 18 october 1994. Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium yersinia pestis. Symptoms include fever weakness and headache. Usually this begins one to seven days after.
After decades with no confirmed human plague in india health authorities there are simultaneously responding to outbreaks of bubonic and pneumonic plague in rural. About the collection disease. The medical history of british india collection reveals the political effects of plague on the indian state in the late 19th. Plague infectious disease caused by yersinia pestis a bacterium transmitted from rodents to humans by the bite of infected fleas.
Plague has caused some of. The following memorandum by the sanitary commissioner with the government of india on the present aspect of the prevalence of plague in india is issued in delhi. Plague is a communicable disease caused by bacterium yersinia pestis.