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Lead Section Bubonic Plague and Chinese in San Fran.[edit]

Third pandemic Main article: Third plague pandemic

The plague resurfaced for a third time in the mid-19th century. Like the two previous outbreaks, this one also originated in Eastern Asia, most likely in Yunnan Province of China, where there are several natural plague foci.[23] The initial outbreaks occurred in the second half of the eighteenth century.[24][25] The disease remained localized in Southwest China for several years before spreading. In the city of Canton, beginning in January 1894, the disease killed 80,000 people by June. Daily water-traffic with the nearby city of Hong Kong rapidly spread the plague there, killing over 2,400 within two months.[26]

Also known as the modern pandemic, the third pandemic spread the disease to port cities throughout the world in the second half of the 19th century and early 20th century via shipping routes.[27] The plague inflicted people in Chinatown in San Francisco from 1900-1904,[28] and the people of Oakland and east bay again from 1907-1909.[29] During the outbreak from 1900-1904 in San Francisco is when authorities made permanent the Chinese Exclusion Act[1]. This law was originally signed into existence by President Chester A. Arthur[2] in 1882. The Chinese Exclusion Act was supposed to only last for ten years but was renewed in 1892 with the Geary Act[3] and subsequently made permanent in 1902 during the outbreak of plague in Chinatown, San Francisco. The last major outbreak in the United States occurred in Los Angeles in 1924,[30] though the disease is still present in wild rodents, and can be passed to humans that come in contact with them.[31] According to the World Health Organization, the pandemic was considered active until 1959, when worldwide casualties dropped to 200 per year. In 1994, a plague outbreak in five Indian states caused an estimated 700 infections (including 52 deaths) and triggered a large migration of Indians within India as they tried to avoid the plague.

For over a decade since 2001, Zambia, India, Malawi, Algeria, China, Peru, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo had the most plague cases with over 1,100 cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone. From 1,000 to 2,000 cases are conservatively reported per year to the WHO.[32] From 2012 and to 2017 and reflecting political unrest and poor hygienic conditions, Madagascar began to host regular epidemics.[32]

Between 1900 and 2015, the United States had 1,036 human plague cases with an average of 9 cases per year. In 2015, 16 people in the Western United States developed plague, including 2 cases in Yosemite National Park.[33] These US cases usually occur in rural northern New Mexico, northern Arizona, southern Colorado, California, southern Oregon, and far western Nevada.[34]


https://www.britannica.com/science/bubonic-plague https://www.cdc.gov/plague/symptoms/index.html http://jmvh.org/article/the-history-of-plague-part-1-the-three-great-pandemics/ http://www.history.com/topics/black-death


"Article Evaluation"


In October of 2017 Nayland Blake participated in the performance series Crossing Object (inside Gnomen) hosted by the New Museum[4] in Manhattan (2017–18). Nayland Blake dressed as a bear-bison creature named Gnomen, which is Naylands official "fursona"[5]. The New Museum described that Gnomen “can change sex and gender” while the furry suit represents Blake’s hybrid identity.


--Bubonic Plague Review--

The Wikipedia page for bubonic plague is already very well researched and presented. I plan to thoroughly review the article, along with my own research on the topic, and make corrections. Having taken anatomy/physiology and biology I might add scientific explanations into the subsection labeled "Cause" to inform the reader of the biological happenings of the bubonic plague. Right now that section is brief and could be expanded upon.

Some reliable sources that I plan to use are the CDC, Rosen, William (2007), Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe Archived 25 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine.. Viking Adult; pg 3; ISBN 978-0-670-03855-8. Scott, Susan, and C. J. Duncan (2001). Biology of Plagues: Evidence from Historical Populations. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-80150-8. OCLC 44811929. World Health Organization (November 2014). "Plague Fact sheet N°267". Archived from the original on 24 April 2015. Retrieved 10 May 2015.

  1. ^ "Chinese Exclusion Act". Wikipedia.
  2. ^ Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_A._Arthur. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geary_Act. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ^ "New Museum". wikipedia.
  5. ^ "Fursona". wikipedia. Retrieved 31 January 2018.