An Introduction to Community Health 7th Edition by James McKenzie,Robert Pinger,Jerome Kotecki

Exercise 1

Look up the disease bubonic plague in an encyclopedia or 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?