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The Plague in Crete During the 19th Century

The plague is one of the most dangerous infectious diseases that can affect mankind. The disease has caused countless pandemics over the centuries in many parts of the world, mainly Asia, Africa, and Europe, and has caused over 200 million deaths, making it one of the greatest scourges of mankind th...

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Autores principales: Stefanogiannis, Ioannis, Michaleas, Spyros N, Papadaki, Eleni, Mouzas, Ioannis, Karamanou, Marianna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10442848/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37614276
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.42284
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author Stefanogiannis, Ioannis
Michaleas, Spyros N
Papadaki, Eleni
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Karamanou, Marianna
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description The plague is one of the most dangerous infectious diseases that can affect mankind. The disease has caused countless pandemics over the centuries in many parts of the world, mainly Asia, Africa, and Europe, and has caused over 200 million deaths, making it one of the greatest scourges of mankind throughout the ages. Similar to the rest of Greece, Crete was affected for many years by the plague during the 19th century, which caused significant mortality, both in the cities and the countryside. The lack of doctors, the absence of organized health systems, the ignorance of the origin and modes of transmission, and the belief of the island’s Muslim conquerors in destiny and God-given diseases made the spread of the plague very easy, while simultaneously making its control, with measures to protect public health, extremely difficult. This led to the repeated decimation of the island's population, with immeasurable social and economic consequences for its progression and future development.
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spelling pubmed-104428482023-08-23 The Plague in Crete During the 19th Century Stefanogiannis, Ioannis Michaleas, Spyros N Papadaki, Eleni Mouzas, Ioannis Karamanou, Marianna Cureus Infectious Disease The plague is one of the most dangerous infectious diseases that can affect mankind. The disease has caused countless pandemics over the centuries in many parts of the world, mainly Asia, Africa, and Europe, and has caused over 200 million deaths, making it one of the greatest scourges of mankind throughout the ages. Similar to the rest of Greece, Crete was affected for many years by the plague during the 19th century, which caused significant mortality, both in the cities and the countryside. The lack of doctors, the absence of organized health systems, the ignorance of the origin and modes of transmission, and the belief of the island’s Muslim conquerors in destiny and God-given diseases made the spread of the plague very easy, while simultaneously making its control, with measures to protect public health, extremely difficult. This led to the repeated decimation of the island's population, with immeasurable social and economic consequences for its progression and future development. Cureus 2023-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC10442848/ /pubmed/37614276 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.42284 Text en Copyright © 2023, Stefanogiannis et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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