When someone with pneumonic plague coughs, microscopic droplets carrying the infection move through the air. Anyone who breathes in these particles may catch the disease. An epidemic may be started this way.
Pneumonic plague
Pneumonic plague is the least common form of plague — accounting for 12 percent of U.S. cases in the last 50 years — but the most rapidly fatal.
Pneumonic plague develops most rapidly and is most frequently fatal.
(Pneumonic Plague; Bubonic Plague; Septicemic Plague; Pharyngeal Plague)
Definition ...
(2) The pneumonic plague: there is abrupt onset of the features of a fulminant pneumonia with bloody sputum, marked respiratory distress, cyanosis and almost invariably death; ...
Pneumonic plague was even deadlier with a mortality rate of 90-95%. It attacked the lungs, filling them with fluid causing victims to spit up mucous and blood.
Pneumonic plague: Direct inhalation of the plague-causing germs results in pneumonic plague. Severe illness follows. The death rate for pneumonic plague is 100% if not treated within the first 24 hours of infection.
Pneumonic plague symptoms appear suddenly, typically 2 - 3 days after exposure. They include:
Difficulty breathing
Frothy, bloody sputum
Severe cough ...
Pneumonic plague is the least common form of plague. Primary pneumonic plague can occur when you inhale infectious droplets coughed into the air by a person or animal with pneumonic plague.
Pneumonic Plague
A frequently fatal form of bubonic plague in which the lungs are infected and the disease is transmissible by coughing. [Heritage]
Septicemic Plague ...
PP (Pneumonic Plague):
With BP or SP
Symptoms occur within hours -- one day after inhalation of bacteria
Cough
Frothy sputum (what is coughed up)
Coughing blood
Chest pain
Shortness of breath
Confusion ...
Patients with pneumonic plague are strictly isolated from other patients. People who have had contact with anyone infected by pneumonic plague are observed closely and are given antibiotics as a preventive measure.
Expectations (prognosis): ...
Bubonic plague; Pneumonic plague; Septicemic plague
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Plague is caused by the organism Yersinia pestis. Rodents, such as rats, spread the disease to humans.
The first signs of pneumonic plague are fever, chills, headache, weakness, and coughing with bloody or watery sputum. These symptoms usually appear 1 to 6 days after exposure. The pneumonia gets worse over 2 to 4 days.
The difficulty of explaining the spread of plague, at one time apparently almost insuperable, has at last been overcome, as it has been found that although the acute pneumonic plague is undoubtedly highly contagious, ...
This name is given to the pandemic bubonic and pneumonic plague that swept across the Middle East, the Mediterranean region, and Europe in the fourteenth century. Great epidemics had occurred before, but never with the ferocity of the Black Death.
Pneumonic Plague
Septicemic Plague
Bubonic Plague is an acute, severe infectious disorder caused by the bacterium (bacillus) Yersinia Pestis. These bacteria can be carried by small wild rodents, other wild animals or even household pets.
Invasion of the lungs by the organism (pneumonic plague) may occur as a complication of the bubonic form or as a primary infection.
Without treatment, bubonic plague is up to 60 percent fatal, and pneumonic plague is almost always fatal. With prompt antibiotic treatment -- within 24 hours of showing symptoms -- the mortality rate drops significantly.
Patients or animals with pneumonic plague should be quarantined until three full days of antibiotic treatment have been administered.
However, the Indian pneumonic plague is airborne. Human plague reported in recent years in Africa, South East Asia, parts of South American and the US. Recently been reported in India, Vietnam and Zambia. Risk generally in rural mountainous areas.
It is spread by droplets in the air. People can catch pneumonic plague from face-to-face contact with someone who has the disease. Bubonic and septicemic plague, without respiratory complications, are not spread from person-to-person.
With some exceptions such as smallpox and pneumonic plague, which are contagious diseases, most biological agents that could be used as bioterror weapons are not spread from person to person.
pestis that infect the lungs (termed pneumonic plague). Death occurs in about 50%-90% of all people who develop infection with Y. pestis and are not treated; even with treatment, about 15% of infected people will still die.
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 See also: Plague, Symptom, Bubonic plague, Death, Fever
  
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