Can we make human plague history? A call to action

• Paul Mead,
• Laurence Baril,
• Xavier Vallès,
• Nils Christian Stenseth,
• Minoarisoa Rajerison,
• Maherisoa Ratsitorahina,
• Javier Pizarro-Cerdá,
• Christian Demeure,
• Steve Belmain,
• Holger Scholz,
• Romain Girod,
• Joseph Hinnebusch,
• Ines Vigan-Womas,
• Eric Bertherat,
• Arnaud Fontanet,
• Yazdan Yazadanpanah,
• Guia Carrara,
• Jane Deuve,
• Eric D'ortenzio,
• Jose Oswaldo Cabanillas Angulo,
• Peter W Horby

Affiliations

Paul Mead

General Medicine Department, North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, Whitehaven, UK

Laurence Baril

Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Xavier Vallès

1 Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Nils Christian Stenseth

2 Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Minoarisoa Rajerison

4 Plague Unit, Central Laboratory for Plague, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Maherisoa Ratsitorahina

1 Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Javier Pizarro-Cerdá

5 Yersinia Research Unit, National Reference Centre `Plague & Other Yersinioses`,World Health Organization Collaborating Reference and Research Centre for Yersinia, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Christian Demeure

5 Yersinia Research Unit, National Reference Centre `Plague & Other Yersinioses`,World Health Organization Collaborating Reference and Research Centre for Yersinia, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Steve Belmain

6 Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, Kent, UK

Holger Scholz

2 Institute of Vegetative Physiology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Romain Girod

8 Medical Entomology Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Joseph Hinnebusch

9 Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Health, National Instittute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Hamilton, Ohio, USA

Ines Vigan-Womas

10 Immunology of Infectious Diseases Unit, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar, Antananarivo, Madagascar

Eric Bertherat

11 Alert and Response Operations Programme, Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response Department, World Health Organization, Geneve, Switzerland

Arnaud Fontanet

Emerging Diseases Epidemiology Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Yazdan Yazadanpanah

13 REACTing, Inserm, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France

Guia Carrara

13 REACTing, Inserm, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France

Jane Deuve

14 Department of International Affairs, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Eric D'ortenzio

13 REACTing, Inserm, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France

Jose Oswaldo Cabanillas Angulo

16 Control de Epidemia Desastres y Otras Emergencias Sanitarias, Oficina General de Epidemiologia, Ministerio de Salud de Perú, Lima, Peru

Peter W Horby

6 Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, ISARIC Global Support Centre, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK