Pneumonic plague is a severe lung infection caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Symptoms include fever, headache, shortness of breath, chest pain... 24 KB (2,416 words) - 16:57, 30 January 2024 |
There are three forms of plague, each affecting a different part of the body and causing associated symptoms. Pneumonic plague infects the lungs, causing... 33 KB (3,616 words) - 00:39, 26 April 2024 |
three types of plague are the result of the route of infection: bubonic plague, septicemic plague, and pneumonic plague. Bubonic plague is mainly spread... 51 KB (5,310 words) - 00:09, 17 April 2024 |
Madagascar has experienced several outbreaks of bubonic and pneumonic plague in the 21st century. In the outbreak beginning in 2014, 71 died; in 2017,... 26 KB (3,036 words) - 10:35, 6 December 2023 |
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... 127 KB (13,681 words) - 16:20, 19 April 2024 |
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... 66 KB (7,436 words) - 04:24, 29 April 2024 |
untreated. The other varieties of the plague are bubonic plague and pneumonic plague. The usual symptoms are: Abdominal pain Bleeding under the skin due... 12 KB (1,420 words) - 15:31, 27 March 2024 |
The Manchurian plague was a pneumonic plague that occurred mainly in Manchuria in 1910–1911. It killed 60,000 people, stimulating a multinational medical... 8 KB (824 words) - 21:34, 5 January 2024 |
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... 10 KB (1,120 words) - 20:17, 19 April 2024 |
the pneumonic plague, so live, attenuated vaccines and recombinant protein vaccines have been developed to prevent the disease. The first plague vaccine... 5 KB (465 words) - 13:42, 8 March 2024 |
List of epidemics and pandemics (redirect from List of historical plagues) 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... 150 KB (9,104 words) - 10:12, 30 April 2024 |
Look up pneumonic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pneumonic (not to be confused with mnemonic) may refer to: Lung Pneumonic plague, a lung infection... 440 bytes (63 words) - 07:06, 29 September 2023 |
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... 53 KB (5,984 words) - 20:38, 18 February 2024 |
The first plague pandemic was the first historically recorded Old World pandemic of plague, the contagious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis... 16 KB (1,842 words) - 04:58, 14 April 2024 |
Wu Lien-teh (section Pneumonic plague) 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... 27 KB (2,875 words) - 22:52, 1 April 2024 |
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... 12 KB (1,551 words) - 12:18, 18 January 2024 |
bubonic and pneumonic plague in humans. Sylvatic, or sylvan, means 'occurring in woodland,' and refers specifically to the form of plague in rural wildlife... 5 KB (546 words) - 18:05, 2 April 2024 |
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... 46 KB (6,355 words) - 12:05, 11 March 2024 |
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... 34 KB (4,269 words) - 15:31, 19 February 2024 |
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... 56 KB (6,272 words) - 17:31, 7 April 2024 |
septicemic plague and pneumonic plague, were also present. Second plague pandemic Great Plague of London Great Plague of Vienna Bubonic Plague Black Death... 4 KB (521 words) - 15:18, 2 March 2024 |
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... 11 KB (1,296 words) - 16:58, 19 January 2024 |
Ziketan Town (section 2009 pneumonic plague outbreak) 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... 15 KB (783 words) - 14:57, 3 August 2023 |
Theories of the Black Death (section Plague) after infection. The septicaemic plague is a form of "blood poisoning", and pneumonic plague is an airborne plague that attacks the lungs before the... 33 KB (4,340 words) - 01:38, 15 February 2024 |
The “pimple plague” and “vomit blood plague,” recorded in Chinese literature at the time, were possibly bubonic plague and pneumonic plague. In March 1644... 5 KB (493 words) - 20:44, 1 April 2024 |
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... 7 KB (697 words) - 02:01, 14 April 2024 |