Warburg stated, Just as there are many remote causes of plague, heat, insects, rats, but only one common cause, the plague bacillus, there are a great many remote causes of cancer-tar, rays, arsenic, pressure, urethane- but there is only one common cause into which all other causes of cancer merge, the irreversible injuring of respiration.
Yersinia pestis, the cause of plague, is a Gram-negative bacterium that is transmitted to mammals by infected fleas.
Genes encoding homologues of insecticidal toxins from Photorhabdus spp occur naturally within the genome of Yersinia pestis, the cause of plague.
Yersinia pestis, the cause of plague, contains insecticidal toxins, which may have been laterally transferred from the insect pathogen Photorhabdus luminescens (4 ).
Extensive lymphocyte apoptosis has also occurred in humans and animals infected with several exotic agents, including Bacillus anthracis, the cause of anthrax; Yersinia pestis, the cause of plague; and Ebola virus.
Out of the former eleven known species of Yersinia, Y. pestis as the cause of plague, Y. pseudotuberculosis and certain biotypes of Y. enterocolitica are of great significance for human health.
Experience and observation provided the first tools against epidemics because scientific information about the cause of plague was not obtained until several centuries later at the end of the 19th century, through laboratory research conducted by Alexandre Yersin (15 ).
The Hebrews, understood by Pharaoh as the cause of plagues that threatened to destroy his nation, were driven out into the wilderness, where they wandered for forty years.
Human cases of plague in China are usually caused by contact with plague-infected rodents.
He pointed out that the Plague of Athens also included "coughing and chest pain, which can occur about a third of the time with Ebola," but the sneezing that Thucydides describes, "would not be compatible with any of the possible causes of the Plague that historians have entertained, including Ebola".
