![]() ![]() ‘Although antibiotics can be used to treat plague, many areas experiencing outbreaks are very remote locations. A relatively recent epidemic in Madagascar saw 2,119 suspected cases and 171 deaths from August 2017 to November 2017.Ĭhristine Rollier, Associate Professor of Vaccinology at the Oxford Vaccine Group, said: Both bubonic and pneumonic plague can develop into a life-threatening infection of the blood called septicaemia.įrom 2010 to 2015, there were 3,248 cases reported globally, including 584 deaths. If left untreated, the bubonic form has a 30 percent to 60 percent fatality rate and the pneumonic form is almost always fatal. ![]() There are three different types of plague: bubonic, pneumonic and septicaemic. Probably the most well-known example of plague is the Black Death of the 1300s this form of the bubonic plague was the biggest global pandemic in history and killed hundreds of millions of people worldwide.Īlthough for much of the world plague has been eliminated, cases do continue to occur annually in rural areas of Africa, Asia and even America. A new vaccine to prevent plague is important for them and for our health security.’ Plague threatened the world in several horrific waves over past millennia, and, even today, outbreaks continue to disrupt communities. ‘The coronavirus pandemic has shown the importance of vaccines to defend populations from the threat caused by bacteria and viruses. Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, Director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, said: The trial, funded by Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, uses a vaccine based on the ChAdOx1 adenovirus viral vector platform also used in the successful Oxford coronavirus vaccine, and will recruit forty healthy adults aged 18 to 55 to receive this new vaccine, in order to assess side effects and determine how well it induces protective antibody and T cell responses. ![]()
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