[The occurence of a plague epidemic at Sidi Abdallah-Ferryville in 1944-1945].

Account of a plague epidemic in the tunisian maritime area of Bizerte - Ferryville - Sidi Abdallah, between August 1944 and March 1945, the strategic period of the landing forces in the South of France. 37 patients were treated at the Maritime Hospital of Sidi Abdallah. 27 died. The treatment was 8 to 10 g. of sulfadizine/day. Control measures: vaccination of entire population of the area, with E.V. vaccine or with heated vaccine. Vaccinees = 29 908. Intensification of rat and insect-arthropods eradication. We observed only one secondary pulmonary form. During this epidemic, we had the opportunity to demonstrate the inefficacity of penicillin on Yersinia pestis.