ReviewEmerging infectious diseases2021
Plague Transmission from Corpses and Carcasses.
Review in Emerging infectious diseases, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
- Infectious medical waste (IMW) and disease transmission: A critical public health challenge in Africa and the global implications - A systematic review.Journal of public health research · 2026Article
- A Novel, Broad-Spectrum, Virulent Bacteriophage TargetingPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Plagued by the Past, Pressed by the Present: A One Health Perspective onBiomedicines · 2025Review
- Echoes of the Black Death: Yersinia Pestis Resurgence and Public Health Perspectives.Infectious disorders drug targets · 2025Article
- Vector-Borne Zoonotic Lymphadenitis-The Causative Agents, Epidemiology, Diagnostic Approach, and Therapeutic Possibilities-An Overview.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Multiple Introductions of Yersinia pestis during Urban Pneumonic Plague Epidemic, Madagascar, 2017.Emerging infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Mapping Plague Risk Using Super Species Distribution Models and Forecasts for Rodents in the Zhambyl Region, Kazakhstan.GeoHealth · 2023Article
- Genomic epidemiological analysis of county-scale Yersinia pestis spread pattern over 50 years in a Southwest Chinese prefecture.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2023Article
- Genetic Evidence of the Black Death in the Abbey of San Leonardo (Apulia Region, Italy): Tracing the Cause of Death in Two Individuals Buried with Coins.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Knowing whether human corpses can transmit plague will inform policies for handling the bodies of those who have died of the disease. We analyzed the literature to evaluate risk for transmission of Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, from human corpses and animal carcasses. Because we could not find direct evidence of transmission, we described a transmission pathway and assessed the potential for transmission at each step. We examined 3 potential sources of infection: body fluids of living plague patients, infected corpses and carcasses, and body fluids of infected corpses. We concluded that pneumonic plague can be transmitted by intensive handling of the corpse or carcass, presumably through the inhalation of respiratory droplets, and that bubonic plague can be transmitted by blood-to-blood contact with the body fluids of a corpse or carcass. These findings should inform precautions taken by those handling the bodies of persons or animals that died of plague.
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