How Plague Got Rats Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic

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Title: How Plague Got Rats Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic
Author: Christos Lynteris
Category: Public Health, History, Medical
Language: English | 304 str. Pages | ISBN: 9781421454757

Description:
How modern epidemiology was born through the unlikely rise of the plague rat.
Today, rats are nearly synonymous with plague, but this association is surprisingly recent. For centuries, plague devastated populations without being linked to animals. So how did the rat become the symbol of one of history's deadliest diseases? In How Plague Got Rats, Christos Lynteris unravels this story by focusing on the Third Plague Pandemic, a global outbreak that began in China in the 1850s and claimed an estimated 15 million lives by the mid-twentieth century.
This was the first major pandemic recognized by scientists as zoonotic-spread from animals to humans-and it marked a turning point in both medical science and global health. Through a gripping historical investigation, Lynteris explores how rats entered the medical imagination of the time. He reveals how scientific thinking about disease vectors evolved in tandem with colonial power structures as plague...

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