Plague Ecosystem Resilience to Intervention, 2016-2018

In the PERI project, a collaboration between Oslo and Minnesota, we investigated the ecosystem-scale plague interventions of the former USSR, using archival works, interviews with Soviet plague researchers, and published (russian) work.

Created: Jul 2016 ◦ Updated: Jul 2016 ◦ 1 min

Picture of a timeline where the plague control strategy of the former USSR evolved from eradication to control — The USSR plague strategy shifted from eradication to control.

Jones, S.D. et al. (2019) ‘Living with plague: Lessons from the Soviet Union’s antiplague system’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(19), pp. 9155–9163.