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    Pneumonic plague is a severe lung infection caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Symptoms include fever, headache, shortness of breath, chest pain...
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    There are three forms of plague, each affecting a different part of the body and causing associated symptoms. Pneumonic plague infects the lungs, causing...
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    three types of plague are the result of the route of infection: bubonic plague, septicemic plague, and pneumonic plague. Bubonic plague is mainly spread...
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    Madagascar has experienced several outbreaks of bubonic and pneumonic plague in the 21st century. In the outbreak beginning in 2014, 71 died; in 2017,...
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    Black Death (redirect from Black Plague)
    came ashore, the Black Death mainly spread from person-to-person as pneumonic plague, thus explaining the quick inland spread of the epidemic, which was...
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    The 1924 Los Angeles pneumonic plague outbreak was an outbreak of the pneumonic plague in Los Angeles, California that began on September 28, 1924, and...
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    untreated. The other varieties of the plague are bubonic plague and pneumonic plague. The usual symptoms are: Abdominal pain Bleeding under the skin due...
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    The Manchurian plague was a pneumonic plague that occurred mainly in Manchuria in 1910–1911. It killed 60,000 people, stimulating a multinational medical...
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  • The 1994 plague in India was an outbreak of bubonic and pneumonic plague in south-central and western India from 26 August to 18 October 1994. 693 suspected...
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    the pneumonic plague, so live, attenuated vaccines and recombinant protein vaccines have been developed to prevent the disease. The first plague vaccine...
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    ISBN 9780444528094. Retrieved 11 February 2020. Viseltear A.J. (March 1974). "The Pneumonic Plague Epidemic of 1924 in Los Angeles". Yale J. Biol. Med. 47 (1): 40–54...
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  • Look up pneumonic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pneumonic (not to be confused with mnemonic) may refer to: Lung Pneumonic plague, a lung infection...
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    Yersinia pestis (category Plague (disease))
    plasmin in human hosts and is a very important virulence factor for pneumonic plague. Together, these plasmids, and a pathogenicity island called HPI, encode...
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    The plague of Justinian or Justinianic plague (AD 541–549) was an epidemic that afflicted the entire Mediterranean Basin, Europe, and the Near East, severely...
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    The Antonine Plague of AD 165 to 180, also known as the Plague of Galen (after Galen, the Greek physician who described it), was a prolonged and destructive...
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  • The first plague pandemic was the first historically recorded Old World pandemic of plague, the contagious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis...
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    that killed 99.9% of its victims. This was the beginning of the large pneumonic plague epidemic of Manchuria and Mongolia, which ultimately claimed 60,000...
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  • The Plague of Cyprian was a pandemic that afflicted the Roman Empire from about AD 249 to 262, or 251/2 to 270. The plague is thought to have caused widespread...
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    bubonic and pneumonic plague in humans. Sylvatic, or sylvan, means 'occurring in woodland,' and refers specifically to the form of plague in rural wildlife...
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    plague epidemics that originated in Central Asia in 1331 (the first year of the Black Death), and included related diseases such as pneumonic plague and...
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    The Plague of Athens (Ancient Greek: Λοιμὸς τῶν Ἀθηνῶν, Loimos tôn Athênôn) was an epidemic that devastated the city-state of Athens in ancient Greece...
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    primarily pneumonic in character with a strong person-to-person contagion. This strain was largely confined to Asia.[citation needed] The bubonic plague was...
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    The second plague pandemic was a major series of epidemics of plague that started with the Black Death, which reached medieval Europe in 1346 and killed...
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  • septicemic plague and pneumonic plague, were also present. Second plague pandemic Great Plague of London Great Plague of Vienna Bubonic Plague Black Death...
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  • Neolithic decline (category Plague pandemics)
    cause pneumonic plague", an extremely deadly form of the plague which is airborne and directly communicable between humans. This strain of plague, researchers...
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  • authorities quarantined Zigortang after a dozen people were sickened with pneumonic plague, a lung infection that can kill a human in 24 hours if left untreated...
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  • after infection. The septicaemic plague is a form of "blood poisoning", and pneumonic plague is an airborne plague that attacks the lungs before the...
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    Station. An epidemic of pneumonic plague occurred in surrounding Manchuria from 1910 to 1911, known as the Manchurian plague. It was the worst-ever recorded...
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    The “pimple plague” and “vomit blood plague,” recorded in Chinese literature at the time, were possibly bubonic plague and pneumonic plague. In March 1644...
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    The Hittite Plague or Hand of Nergal was an epidemic, possibly of tularemia, which occurred in the mid-to-late 14th century BC. The Hittite Empire stretched...
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