1900's Medicine and Health | "The Conduct of a Plague Campaign"

Journal article

By: Rupert Blue

Date: February 1, 1908

Source: Blue, Rupert. "The Conduct of a Plague Campaign." Journal of the American Medical Association, February 1, 1908, 327–329.

About the Author: Rupert Blue (1868–1948) was born in Richmond County, North Carolina, and received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Maryland in 1892. The following year, he joined the Marine Hospital Service as an assistant surgeon. He worked with health officials throughout the United States in combating plague and yellow fever. Between 1912 and 1920, he was the U.S. surgeon general.

Introduction

The bacterium Yersinia pestis causes plague. The bacterium lives in the gut of the flea Xenopsylla cheopis, which transmits the bacterium to mammals by biting them, much as female mosquitoes transmit malaria, yellow fever, and the West Nile Virus...