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- Title
Digitizing Historical Plague.
- Authors
Büntgen, Ulf; Ginzler, Christian; Esper, Jan; Tegel, Willy; McMichael, Anthony J.
- Abstract
The article discusses a digitized data on 6,929 plague outbreak occurred throughout Europe between 1347 and 1900. It mentions the bubonic plague which was caused by the flea-borne bacteria Yersinia pestis and the Black Death pandemic that both persisted with repeated irruptions. It also notes that the said data provide insight on spatiotemporal patterns and dynamics of its historical outbreaks.
- Subjects
EUROPE; PLAGUE; ELECTRONIC information resources; YERSINIA pestis; PANDEMICS; BLACK Death pandemic, 1348-1351; HISTORY
- Publication
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2012, Vol 55, Issue 11, p1586
- ISSN
1058-4838
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/cid/cis723