[ThanhPhero]

Alexandre Yersin, who isolated the plague pathogen and for which it is named- Yersinia Pestis, was a French bacteriologist who wound up in Nha Trang, Việt Nam. He had done some exploration in the country and fell in love with it. The Vietnamese, even the Communists, revere him and there are more streets named for him than for any other non ancient figure other than Hồ Chi Minh. The hospital he founded in NT is the equal of the best hospitals in the world. His grave is in the forest in a cleared and carefully tended spot in Khánh Hòa and is a lay pilgrimage site for many.

[PUGACHEV]

About twenty years ago I knew an medical doctor from Turkey who was then in his 80s. He told me that he had treated cases of Bubonic Plague and Smallpox.

[Mears]

Thanks for that very interesting story.

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