a southern mother.”
4. David T. Dennis, Kenneth L. Gage, et al., Plague Manual: Epidemiology, Distribution, Surveillance and Control (Geneva: World Health Organization, 1999), p. 15. Global case and death reports from 1954 to 1997, and countries with annual plague cases are from the WHO Web site, at www.who.org.
5. Kenneth L. Gage, David T. Dennis, et al., “Cases of Cat-Associated Plague in the Western U.S., 1977– 1998,” Clinical Infectious Diseases 30, no. 6 (June 2000): 893–900.
6. Matt Mygatt, “Woman Contracts Plague After Finding ‘Wobbly Mice,’ ” Associated Press Newswires, January 26, 2000.
7. Kenneth Gage, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colo., interview with the author, August 24, 2000, by telephone.
8. Interview with bioweapons expert William C. Patrick, former chief of product division, U.S. Army, Fort Detrick, MD, on August 29, 2002.
9. Charles T. Gregg, Plague: An Ancient Disease in the Twentieth Century (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1985), pp. 211–213. See also R. W. Burmeister et al., “Laboratory- Acquired Pneumonic Plague,” Annals of Internal Medicine 56, no. 5 (May 1962): 789–800. See also personal communication, Phil Luton, Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research, U.K. Department of Health. Note that the American death occurred while the United States was still actively studying biological weapons, but the British death occurred after the United Kingdom had abandoned its offensive chemical and biological weapons program.
10. Ken Alibek, Biohazard (New York: Random House, 1999), pp. 20, 166.
11. J. Parkhill et al., “Genome Sequence of Yersinia pestis, the Causative Agent of Plague,” Nature 413 (October 4, 2001); see also Marilyn Chase, “Researchers in Britain Have Determined the Genetic Sequence of Bubonic Plague,” Wall Street Journal, October 4, 2001.
12. Rupert Blue, “The Underlying Principles of Anti-Plague Measures,” originally published in California State Journal of Medicine, 1908, reprinted in Frank Morton Todd, Eradicating Plague from San Francisco: A Report of the Citizens’ Health Committee and an Account of Its Work (San Francisco: C. A. Murdock & Co., 1909), p. 215.
13. Bess Furman, A Profile of the United States Public Health Service, 1798–1948 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1973), p. 286.
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