Latest Plague Stories

Padmore Books author, Ila Monroe, writes a thriller to spark a conversation about deadly infections that occur daily in the medical wards, but go unreported. Miami, Florida (PRWEB) May 14, 2013 Golden Plague, by Ila Monroe, is a work of fiction where the villains are hospital directors and managers of pharmaceutical companies covering up a sinister set of occurrences, and the protagonists, three young adults, trying to stay alive. It depicts a modern day reality which is plaguing public...

Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A plague has gripped Madagascar and a UN body says the country will need $41 million over three years to help fight off the infestation that has gripped more than half of the world’s fourth-largest island. The plague comes in the form of locusts, a term generally referring to the swarming phase of several species of short-horned grasshoppers. This plague has been increasingly threatening Madagascar’s crop production and...

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online More than a dozen bodies believed to be those of plague victims have been unearthed by excavation workers working on the construction of a new railroad in the UK, various media outlets reported late last week. According to Joe Shute of The Telegraph, engineers working on the $22 billion Crossrail project uncovered a total of 14 bodies in a previously undiscovered Black Death plague pit located at Charterhouse Square in...

Fleas and ticks are troublesome for pet owners. Assisi wants to help educate the public on prevention and treatment of these insects during the month of March. Malverne, NY (PRWEB) March 16, 2013 Fleas are small, biting, jumping insects that live in the fur of many different animals. Fleas are common and can cause many health problems for pets and their owners. Throughout the month of March, Assisi Veterinary Hospital is helping to educate their patients’ owners on proper treatment and...

ATLANTA, Nov. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As the cool temperatures start to settle in for the next few months, Orkin, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rollins Inc. (NYSE: ROL), advises homeowners to pest-proof their homes now, because fall is when most insect and rodent pests seek shelter for the winter months. "With the recent cool weather, rodents and other pests tend to move inside around this time of year to find a warm place for the winter and breed," said Dr. Tom Zorka, Orkin's...

ATLANTA, Oct. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Some parts of the Northwest have already seen snow, and as the cool temperatures start to settle in for the next few months, Orkin, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rollins Inc. (NYSE: ROL), advises homeowners to pest-proof their homes now, because fall is when most insect and rodent pests seek shelter for the winter months. "As the weather starts to cool, rodents and other pests move inside to overwinter and breed," said Pat Copps, Pacific...

NEWARK, Del., Oct. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- iBio, Inc. (NYSE MKT: IBIO) today announced that the U.S. Patent Office has allowed patent application 12/668,258 entitled "Yersinia Pestis Antigens, Vaccine Compositions and Related Methods." The claims cover plague antigens comprising Yersinia pestis F1 protein fused to the Company's thermostable iBioModulator(TM) protein, as well as vaccine compositions and a method for producing a protective immune response to the antigen. The invention...

Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A seven-year-old girl from Pagosa Springs, Colorado has survived the bubonic plague after a two week fight at Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children at Presbyterian/St. Luke’s. The is the first confirmed case in the state of Colorado in more than six years. The girl picked up the infection during a picnic at a Colorado campground when she asked her parents to give a half-eaten squirrel carcass a proper burial. Apparently fleas...

Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A week after Yosemite National Park officials reported two cases of deaths caused from contact with feces and urine from Hantavirus-infected rodents, US health officials jumped onboard to alert the international community. The US Department of Health and Human Services is notifying 39 countries that any of their citizens that may have stayed in Yosemite’s Curry Village tent cabins, or anywhere else within the park this summer,...

Illustration by Wang Cheng, Oregon State University --- Massive flea-like insect fossils discovered by Chinese scientists are believed to be the oldest of their kind, and may have feasted on dinosaurs some 165 million years ago, according to zoologists who analyzed the creatures. The fossils were discovered in Inner Mongolia by a group of Chinese scientists, and recently announced in the journal Current Biology. The blood-sucking pests, which are similar to fleas, are more likely...