Egypt’s Mediterranean port of Alexandria / statue of Justinian / Pasteur Institute / port of Pelusium / /
IndustryTerm
important carrier / /
MedicalCondition
very acute inflammation / pus / coma / treatable disease / Tartar / lymphadenitis / epidemics / severe infections / flea spread plague / small bubonic plague / illness / high fever / fatal septicaemic shock / realm Plague / plague / diseases / Bubonic Plague / infection / Des Morts. about plague / anthrax / infectious disease / plague epidemics / epizootic infection / realm Can plague / body causing shock / rat plague / blood clots / fatal disease / septicaemia / pandemic plague / restlessness / bacterium Although plague / Great Plague / soon transmitted plague / Communicable Diseases / disease / continually spreading infection / great epidemics / gastroenteritis / pneumonic plague / shock / large plague epidemics / oriental plague / coughing / toxemia / pneumonic disease / delirium / septicaemia and petechial hemmorahages / vomiting blood / flea-borne infection / /
MedicalTreatment
antibiotics / /
Movie
The Pied Piper / /
NaturalFeature
Krakatoa / Nile / /
Organization
French government / World Health Organization / Department of Public Health NSW / American Public Health Association / army / Japanese government / Pasteur Institute in Paris / New South Wales Emerging Infections and Biohazard Response Unit / Pasteur Institute / New South Wales Board of Health / House of Commons / /
Person
Alexandre Yersin / Rose Impey / John Ashburton Thompson / Paul-Louis Simond / William Rosen / John Pym / John Donne / Nathanial Hodges / /
Position
bacteriologist / physician / historian / contemporary historian / King / Venetian physician / puritan MP / Emperor / modern medical investigator / microbiologist / chief medical officer / /
Product
airborne particles / /
ProvinceOrState
Ohio / Washington / /
Region
Egypt’s Mediterranean / Middle East / South Wales / Central Asia / Mediterranean / sub-Saharan Africa / Levant / /
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