Moreover, plague is currently present in 11 countries around the world [85]; at a time of globalization, characterized by the increased mobility of people and goods, diseases can easily spread from endemic or enzootic regions (i.e. ‘Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority rat-catchers dipping rats in buckets of petrol to kill fleas for plague control. Another key international plague conference was held in Shenyang (old name, Mukden) in April 1911, with epidemiologists and scientists from 11 countries (China, Japan, USA, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Austria–Hungary, The Netherlands, Russia and Mexico) [33]. Surveys for plague were carried out over an area of more than 2000 km2 [36,44]. However, in the years following the outbreak, they found some evidence of plague in the rat population: in 1901 (122 of 1641), in 1902 (30 of 6492) and in 1907 (1 of 140) [55]. 324249, PI, BB. designed research; B.B. For some of the early outbreaks, such as those in Porto (1899) and Glasgow (1900), the cases are more temporally resolved. The lack of any respiratory symptoms in the account of the Plague of Cyprian is a strike against the identification. Reported suspected plague cases per year in Europe (1899–1950) from the Public Health Reports. [39,63,72]). While the plague became endemic to Yunnan over the next few decades, it was … As humans have spread across the world, so have infectious diseases. The low number of human plague cases in Europe during the Third Pandemic could be explained by a low number of infected rats, but it could also be a reflection of effective public health intervention measures that reduced the contact between humans and infected vectors, such as isolation of patients and contacts, prohibition of gatherings and improved hygiene (e.g. [36,44,63]) and the transportation of infected vectors (e.g. Visuals Unlimited / Corbis. It killed more than 50 … The reports consisted of primary accounts, secondary accounts and scientific reports, which are mainly found in grey literature. Spanish flu that lasted from 1918 until 1920 was the deadliest pandemic ever. We converted city and country data to latitudes and longitudes for mapping using GeoPy (https://geopy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/). Scheube wrote that, ‘The development and spread of plague is influenced in a great measure by the unfavorable hygienic conditions, essentially connected with social misery’ [75, p. 12]. Map of reported plague cases in Europe (1899–1947) from the Public Health Reports and electronic supplementary material, including the number of outbreaks in each location (see also the electronic supplementary material, table S1).Download figureOpen in new tabDownload powerPoint. It appears that plague was also transported by other means, as there are several accounts relating to specific cargo, such as clothing, rags, grain and other merchandize probably containing infected rats or fleas [20,21,32,36–44]. plague usually develop acute febrile disease with other non-specific systemic symptoms after an incubation period of one to seven days In bubonic plague infections, the patient’s lymph nodes swell, and the patient experiences fever, aches, and chills. Recent outbreaks of plague in Liverpool and Glasgow, Taranto fra guerra e dopoguerra. [21,38,63]). Introductions of plague during the Third Pandemic led to the formation of plague reservoirs in the USA [22,23], South America (Peru, Bolivia and Brazil) [23,24] and Africa (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Uganda and Madagascar) [23,25], where ecological conditions have favoured the persistence of the bacteria in sylvatic rodent communities. Cases of pneumonic plague were reported during many of the outbreaks in Europe (electronic supplementary material, table S1) and often spread within households and among close contacts [36,44]. Her mother also contracted the disease and died 3 days after her daughter's death, followed by her stepfather and a neighbour who nursed her mother. When plague was introduced to Europe during the Third Pandemic, rats were heavily scrutinized by European health authorities (figure 3) when plague cases were discovered (e.g. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. The disease was initially spread by fleas during a mining boom in Yunnan, China. and L.W. Figure 3. Swollen and painful lymph nodes occur in the area closest to where the bacteria entered the skin. 1,9,12,15. Today, the spillover of plague from these reservoirs leads to the thousands of cases of plague reported every decade [85]. Plague has a long history on the European continent, with evidence of the disease dating back to the Stone Age. Third plague pandemic: | |Third Pandemic| is the designation of a major World Health Organization, the pandem... World Heritage Encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias available, and the most definitive collection ever assembled. Despite the independency of these strains, the clinical symptoms were similar during the first and second pandemics. second plague pandemic (14th–18th century). More than 40% of adults in four states – Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi and Missouri – and Washington, D.C., had symptoms of anxiety or depression. We systematically collected data for plague cases in Europe from the Public Health Reports (formerly Bulletins of the Public Health and Weekly Abstract of Sanitary Reports) between 1879 and 1950 accessed through PubMed Central (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/). The original use of the word Quarantine was the act of anchoring a ship arrived in Venice, Italy, for 40 days before landing. This necessitated the development of adequate measures to prevent the introduction and spread of infectious diseases to Europe. Digest of recent observations on the epidemiology of plague, Great Britain: report from Glasgow. Is bubonic plague still lurking in the City of Glasgow? In some cases, it appears that infected vectors transmitted the disease between people in close contact. There are also accounts of bubonic plague transmission without a clear association with rats, probably from infected vectors (e.g. Indeed, in the last years, the frequency of plague outbreaks in developing countries in Africa should not be overlooked; industrialized countries must react promptly to plague outbreaks as well as other epidemic diseases, in order to inform the population and help fight against them. ‘Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority rat-catchers dipping rats in buckets of petrol to kill fleas for plague control. Yet, Europe still experienced plague outbreaks during the Third Pandemic, which began in China and spread globally at the end of the nineteenth century. The earliest recorded pandemic happened during the Peloponnesian War. wrote the paper with contribution of the other authors. As Yersinia pestis spread from country to country and from continent to continent, it left behind it not only a trail of death and devastation, but also a vast visual archive. We used narrative and scientific reports in four languages (English, French, Italian and German) to supplement the case data. This article explores how plague—as an idea—became an ahistorical independent agent of historical change. Europe is also the only region for which we have extended records and accounts on the previous plague pandemics, in particular those of the Second Pandemic. Locations and years of reported plague outbreaks in Europe (1899–1950) from the Public Health Reports and electronic supplementary material. There were 1692 cases and 457 deaths from plague reported in Europe between 1899 and 1947 (figure 1; electronic supplementary material, table S1), with the largest number of cases in the years 1899 and 1920. In the original reports, cases in the period before September 1927 were recorded mainly as outbreaks with start–end dates and those after September 1927 were recorded as weekly or monthly incidence. Two-thirds of the population died.The disease, suspected to have been typhoid fever, weakened the Athenians significantly and played a big role in their defeat by the Spartans. However, some researchers have argued that the authorities were unlikely to find plague-infected rats because they would go into hiding [51], thus differing in their behaviour from the rats in Hong Kong during the outbreak of 1894, which were described as dead ‘in abundance on the streets and in the houses' [48, p. 311]. Although published in 1947 and a piece of fiction, The Plague by Albert Camus still eerily reflects how we reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic today as if it is a pattern that we need to recognize. In addition, from the middle of the twentieth century, the number of pests and parasites was reduced by the introduction of insecticides like dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), which was used heavily in many places like Malta from 1946 onwards [69]. Thus, having documented outbreaks of the Third Pandemic can enable comparisons with historical ones, especially considering that the Third Pandemic in Europe was restricted to the pre-antibiotic era. The conference was chaired by Dr Wu Lien Teh, who had stopped the great epidemic of pneumonic plague in Manchuria and Mongolia (about 60 000 victims) by 1910 [33]. Despite the regulations in place, Europe experienced several outbreaks of plague during the Third Pandemic, but the vast majority of these outbreaks were small (electronic supplementary material, table S1). They wrote after the outbreak that ‘inquiry failed to discover any evidence that rat mortality prevailed to an unusual extent’ [63, p. 26]. We are now in the third pandemic (Modern Plague), with outbreaks continuing to occur in some parts of the world (14–18). The Third Pandemic of 1894 . Credit: Wellcome Collection. The British zoologist Twigg later describes these differences in his book on ‘The Black Death’ [61]. foci and reservoirs) to the rest of the world in a short time [88]. (Only locations with multiple plague outbreaks are shown (see also the electronic supplementary material, table S1). Ancient DNA studies have identified Yersinia pestis, the aetiological agent of the Third Pandemic, as the cause of the previous plague pandemics: the First Pandemic (sixth to eighth centuries) [1–3] and the Second Pandemic (fourteen to nineteenth centuries) [4–8]. Figure 2. and N.C.S. The black rat has a history in Europe dating back to medieval times, but it has never been present in large numbers because the climate in Europe is too cold for it to be able to live and reproduce outside heated buildings [56]. The digitization of international records of notifiable diseases, including plague, has enabled us to retrace the introductions of the disease to Europe from the earliest reported cases in 1899, to its disappearance in the 1940s. Image courtesy of Wellcome Collection. For overlapping reports, we used the most recent in time, corresponding to the highest number of cases and deaths. The third, or modern, pandemic started in China in the 19th century and spread to many parts of the world in port cities. A summary of the history and a survey of the present distribution of the disease. We excluded Russia because their reporting of cases internationally has been sparse and irregular. Reported suspected plague cases per year in Europe (1899–1950) from the Public Health Reports. Plague epidemics in Europe during the First and Second Pandemics, including the Black Death, are infamous for their widespread mortality and lasting social and economic impact. The plague re-emerged from its wild rodent reservoir in the remote Chinese province of Yunnan in 1855. Enter your email address below and we will send you your username, If the address matches an existing account you will receive an email with instructions to retrieve your username, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Department of Biomedical and Specialty Surgical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, Division of Physiology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. These early signs of plague included suspicion of human or rat cases onboard, as well as unexplained rat mortality [35], which was also noted in many of the case reports (electronic supplementary material, table S1). In the 1910s, there was another outbreak of plague … In 1945, they found only two rats tested positive [66] and, in 1946, none were infected [43]. For instance, when plague broke out in Glasgow in 1900 (see the electronic supplementary material), the Medical Officer of Health caught and examined 326 rats, but found no evidence of plague in the rat population [39,63]. Plague was notably absent in some parts of Europe. ; K.R.D. But it was another plague outbreak that would help shape China's future. There are other symptoms that can help distinguish the three forms of the plague. But it is worth reading some observations of the 1918 pandemic. 10–16. The lack of a rodent reservoir in Europe is the fundamental reason why plague is no longer a public health threat today on the continent. Figure 1. Although the existence of a rodent reservoir for plague in the past is heavily debated [8,14,17,56,82–84], there is no evidence that plague is endemic to Europe today or was at any time during the Third Pandemic. The local authorities concluded that the infected rats were most probably brought by grain ships which unloaded their cargo in the area to lighten their draught before continuing onwards [36,44]. Here, we investigate plague during the Third Pandemic in Europe, as it differs from other parts of the world, in order to characterize the unique epidemiology of the disease during this time period. Where does human plague still persist in Latin America? During all three pandemics, distinct strains of Y. pestis were introduced to Europe causing epidemics of plague, including the infamous Black Death (1346–1353); the strains from … We are indebted to Giovangualberto Carducci, who has provided us with valuable published and unpublished material about the plague in Taranto 1945, and to the project Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic, funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme/ERC grant agreement no. Owing to their different behaviour, black rats are living closer to humans than brown rats. Contemporary scholars regarded cleaning and disinfecting as an essential part of plague control measurements [21,67,80]. An estimated 25 million people died. Vaccination, if available, and herd immunity can curb the spread of disease. The Third Plague Pandemic. and K.R.D. In 1894, plague reached Canton and then spread to Hong Kong, where Alexandre Yersin identified the bacterium. To prevent further spread, the funeral services of the victims were held in open air and the contacts of the deceased were isolated [36,44]. It was the first time that plague would reach and establish itself in all inhabited continents. conceived the work; B.B., L.W. From a comparison with the grey literature summarized in the electronic supplementary material, it is evident that not all cases have been reported in the Public Health Reports. The disappearance of plague in Europe during the Third Pandemic can be attributed to two main factors, improved hygiene and the lack of a present-day sylvatic reservoir for the disease. The two species of rats carry the same species of fleas. For instance, the last outbreak in Taranto in 1945, with 30 cases and 15 deaths, was hidden owing to military reasons, and possibly, other cases were not reported in times of war. Specifically, we draw on lessons from smallpox outbreaks, the third bubonic plague, the 1918 influenza pandemic, and more recent pandemics, such as HIV/AIDS, SARS, and Ebola. Case records and outbreak reports for the Third Pandemic are numerous and have improved our understanding of the historical epidemiology and distribution of plague. [21,63,72]). Big cities, with exploding population and traffic, can lead to the rapid spread of any infectious disease. However, it was often proposed that other sources of plague, such as infected human-specific or human-biting parasites, like fleas and lice, were important for transmission in Europe during the Third Pandemic [21,36,63,64,74]. [81]). Map of reported plague cases in Europe (1899–1947) from the Public Health Reports and electronic supplementary material, including the number of outbreaks in each location (see also the electronic supplementary material, table S1). In addition to rats, the authorities found some ferrets, cats and rabbits that died of plague [44]. The datasets supporting this article have been uploaded as part of the supplementary material (electronic supplementary material, table S1). Plague was reported in 11 countries, and many cities, including Lisbon, Marseille, Paris and Pireas, experienced multiple outbreaks (table 1). Epidemic is a term that is often broadly used to describe any problem that has grown out of control. Proust described in Bombay that in places where it was possible to clean dwellings, houses and streets, plague outbreaks could be contained or avoided [21]. Il minamento della Rada di Mar Grande (1943) e l'episodio epidemico di peste bubbonica (1945), Control of plague in Taranto, Italy, 1945/1946: an account of a successful programme of rodent extermination, The last epidemic of plague in England? The third pandemic of plague (in its bubonic and pneumonic clinical forms) struck the globe between 1894 and 1959. Three commissions were sent to nearby Astrakhan by European governments (French, British and joint Austrian–German) to study the outbreak which resulted in more than 400 cases [21,27–31]. It was rumoured that dead rats were observed before the outbreak, but none were examined. It reached the Byzantine capital of Constantinople in 541 A.D., and was soon claiming up to 10,000 lives per day—so many that unburied bodies were eventually stacked inside buildings or left in the open. However, a similar account for Europe is missing, making it difficult to compare local and global transmission patterns. CC BY 4.0. The third plague pandemic (1855–1859) started in China in the mid-19th century, spreading to all inhabited continents and killing 10 million people in India alone. We declare we have no competing interests. Following the outbreak, the authorities trapped 148 rats, 14 were R. rattus and the rest were R. norvegicus, but they found no evidence of plague [70]. We present these raw data in the electronic supplementary material, table S1 (1899–1927 in blue, 1927–1947 in green), with the highest resolution available from the reports. Rat monitoring was also carried out in Marseille, France, where 132 cases of plague were reported from 1919 to 1929 [64]. Plague is not a disease that is found in Europe today, and we found no mention of plague outbreaks after 1950. Our study area was continental Europe, excluding Russia, but including the Mediterranean islands. Many different flea species can carry and transmit plague, such as those commonly found on rats (Xenopsylla cheopis), cats (Ctenocephalides felis) and humans (Pulex irritans) [21]. For example, during the plague in Glasgow in 1901, a woman who had fallen ill with the plague was visited by two friends from Liverpool [38] (see the electronic supplementary material). 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Finally, we discuss the international efforts aimed at prevention and intervention measures, namely improved hygiene and sanitation, that ultimately led to the disappearance of plague in Europe. [36,37,55], see also the electronic supplementary material). Indeed, from the 1950s, the introduction of baths in the majority of European dwellings, and the use of vacuum cleaners and washing machines, strongly enhanced personal hygiene and that of the domestic environment (e.g. Over the next few years, plague spread to many cities around the world: Bombay, Singapore, Alexandria, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Honolulu, San Francisco and Sidney, among others [20]. An epidemic is a broad term used to describe any problem that is actively spreading and has grown out of control. [36,63,64,67,74]), often in the poorest quarters of cities, where the majority of cases were found during outbreaks such as Oporto (1899), Glasgow (1900) and Marseille (1900–1921). Finally, we would like to thank three anonymous referees whose comments have improved our contribution. There were two species of commensal rats present in Europe during the Third Pandemic, the black rat (Rattus rattus), also called the ship rat or the roof rat, and the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), also called the sewage rat. Chapekar brothers - Wikipedia The law was in force from 1904 to 1930 where the deadly Third Pandemic of Bubonic plague took place in China, causing 100,000 deaths, and enormous number of … Liverpool, England. This is the new principle underlying modern international prophylaxis' [21, p. vi]. The largest rat epizootic found in Marseille occurred in the poor downtown areas in 1930, where 42 infected rats were discovered out of the 7275 that were examined [64]. Following the international conferences, regular reporting of infectious diseases in Europe began in the 1890s [34]. This observation was later confirmed by Simond, who demonstrated in 1897 that rat-fleas were vectors for the disease [49,50]. Indeed, during the nineteenth century, the spread of several diseases like tuberculosis, smallpox, cholera and yellow fever prompted extensive campaigns in European cities to improve hygienic conditions [79]. A pandemic is a disease occurring in epidemic form throughout the entire population of a country, a people, or the world. The pattern of recurrent cases in East Suffolk led researchers John and Dorothy Black to assume that plague was endemic in this region [36]. The pandemic is believed to have originated in Africa and then spread to Europe through infected rats on merchant ships. Using supplemental literature, we summarize the potential sources of plague in Europe and the transmission of the disease, including the role of rats. If the address matches an existing account you will receive an email with instructions to reset your password. In 1897, Proust observed that, ‘It is no matter of doubt that the plague cannot produce nowadays the disasters of the Black Death in the 14th c. Fortunately, the general hygienic conditions have much changed’ [21, pp. Photograph, 1900/1920’. The Third Plague Pandemic began in the 1850s in the Yunnan region of China. Over the next 20 years, rats carried the infectious fleas responsible for the disease to Hong Kong and port cities around the world. This bubonic plague pandemic started in the Yunnan province in China. We can still find some cases in the U.S. today. At that time, the World Health Organization determined that the plague was no longer active. Justinian I is often credited as the most influential Byzantine emperor, but his reign also coincided with one of the first well-documented outbreaks of plague. Image courtesy of Wellcome Collection. Thucydides, in the History of the Peloponnesian War, paused in his narrative of the war to provide an extremely detailed description of the symptoms of those he observed to be afflicted; symptoms he shared as he too was struck by the illness. As it is still the case for today, vermin infestations back then were associated with poverty and unhygienic living conditions (e.g. Even in this modern era, outbreaks are nearly constant, though not every outbreak reaches pandemic level as the COVID-19 has. The plague returned in waves but was not as severe as this one. These events prompted European officials to convene an international sanitary conference in February 1897 in Venice to specifically discuss the spread of plague [21]. One to seven days after exposure to the bacteria, flu-like symptoms develop. Photograph, 1900/1920’. The 10 deadliest epidemics throughout history. Nevertheless, over-reporting may have occurred if cases were misdiagnosed as plague. During the later part of the nineteenth century, diseases such as cholera and later plague were spreading throughout the world, partly owing to the advent of steamships [26]. The third plague pandemic that started in 1855 in China. Ancient DNA studies have identified Yersinia pestis, the aetiological agent of the Third Pandemic, as the cause of the previous plague pandemics: the First Pandemic (sixth to eighth centuries) [1–3] and the Second Pandemic (fourteen to nineteenth centuries) [4–8]. However, not all introductions of plague led to the formation of reservoirs, typically found in arid and semi-arid highlands [17], which are not present in Europe. The Third Cholera Pandemic (1852-1860) Death Toll: Approximately 1 million Cause: Cholera According to the WHO, there have been seven cholera epidemics. We also investigate the role of rats and other sources of plague, which contributed to decades of small outbreaks. Pneumonic plague occurs when plague infects the lungs, either primarily by the spread of infectious droplets or secondarily as a complication of bubonic plague. collected data and performed analyses; B.B. Authorities also issued a third-level alert, the second lowest in a four-level system, warning people against hunting, eating or transporting potentially infected animals, particularly marmots, and to report any dead or diseased rodents. The prevailing view among researchers in the Indo-Pacific region, including Thompson [51] who observed plague outbreaks in Sydney, Hunter who reported on plague in Hong Kong [52] and those of the Indian Plague Commission [53], was that black rats played an important role in the spread of plague, both as hosts in the chain of transmission and as carriers of the disease on ships [54]. The earliest known European cases occurred in September and October 1896, when two sailors from Bombay died of plague on ships docked in London on the Thames [21]. carried out the research of the historical texts with help of L.W. Cases were geographically widespread, although they were primarily found in coastal or inland port cities (figure 2). Figure 1. These reports have been compiled and summarized for several regions: North America [22,23], South America [23,24], Africa [23,25] and Asia [23]. Overall, the connection between urban rodents and human plague in Europe during the Third Pandemic is less clear than for outbreaks in India and China [21,46,48–50,54,75–78]. These reports are translated and summarized in the electronic supplementary material. This was the third major bubonic plague outbreak to hit European society. It may have been an early appearance of smallpox that began with the Huns.The Huns then infected the Germans, who passed it to the Romans and then returning troops spread it throughout the Roman empire. Finally, we discuss the eventual disappearance of plague in Europe owing to increased hygiene and a lack of a long-term rodent reservoir. From the late 1800s, Lowry [46], Rocher [47] and Yersin [48], among others, observed a connection between human and rat plague mortality during epidemics in India and China, suggesting that black rats were involved in transmission. From the first reports of plague, European sanitary authorities actively searched for dead rats in cities [39,63–66], urban districts [36,44], isles [67–70] and on ships [19], and they used early bacteriological methods to test for the plague bacterium in the local black and brown rat populations (e.g. While plague clearly has a long history in Europe, there are no known reservoirs for the disease today [12], which has generated debate surrounding how the ecology and epidemiology of plague has changed over time [13,14]. Perhaps the most extensive rat surveys carried out during the Third Pandemic in Europe were in and around East Suffolk, Britain, where cases appeared regularly from 1906 to 1918 [36,44]. It focuses on the case of the Justinianic Plague (ca. It is possible that future ancient DNA studies will demonstrate that all of the different lineages of Y. pestis involved in historic outbreaks went extinct after their introduction into Europe (see also Namouchi et al. 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