Plagues & Epidemics

Plague - Terms
Three episodes

1. Black Death 1350
2. London 1665
3. Hong Kong 1894 (hunt for the bacteria)

Yersinia pestis

1680  Vienna, Budapest, Prague
      1683 - Ottoman empire besieges Vienna
1710  Baltic
1720  Marseilles
1720s-'30s Russia/Persia
1770  Moscow

Johann Gabriel Sparwenfeld, 1690

Cholera
      Filippo Pacini
      John Snow
Anthrax

germ theory
Louis Pasteur
      1885 rabies vaccine
      1889 "Pasteur Institute"
Robert Koch

1894 Hong Kong
      Shibasaburo Kitasoto (Japanese < Berlin)
      Alexandre Yersin