An Introduction to Community & Public Health 8th Edition by James McKenzie, Pinger

Exercise 19

Look up the disease bubonic plague on the Internet. After reading about the disease, see if you can complete a chain of infection model for plague. Identify the causative agent, the vector, the reservoir, and the mode of transmission. What types of prevention and control strategies were used in the past to stop the spread of this disease? What can be done differently today if there is an epidemic of plague?