![]() ![]() But in fact the same thing happened a century ago with bubonic plague in San Francisco."īubonic plague is a bacterial disease that breeds in rodents and spreads to humans by the bite of infected fleas. "It sounds like it's ripped from today's headlines. "When I give readings, I often begin by saying, 'Here you have a frightening disease that comes from abroad, that sails across the seas with international travel," she says. ![]() The publication of The Barbary Plague comes at a time of mounting public anxiety about SARS, and Marilyn Chase believes that makes her book especially timely. Taking her title from the city's old waterfront district, known as the Barbary Coast, Marilyn Chase has written "The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco". Marilyn Chase is a Wall Street Journal medical writer who sees striking parallels with the bubonic plague epidemic that struck San Francisco, California at the turn of the last century. But in other ways SARS recalls disease epidemics from more distant times in history. Today's mobile world has led to the rapid spread of the deadly respiratory virus called SARS. ![]()
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