If you think you're more of a pneumonic kinda gal, let someone with pneumonic plague cough in your mouth!
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Plague comes in three variants — bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic.
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And again, it's pneumonic plague that's affecting Madagascar right now.
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Pneumonic plague is nearly always fatal if not properly treated.
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Pneumonic plague, which infects the lungs and causes serious coughing.
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Thousands were killed by pneumonic plague, the most severe strand.
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Pneumonic plague is the most contagious and severe form of plague, and it's the type that can spread from person to person or develop when bubonic plague spreads to the lungs, called secondary pneumonic plague.
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There are actually three types of plague: bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic.
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Pneumonic plague is the most virulent and serious form of plague.
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The pneumonic form invades the lungs, and is treatable with antibiotics.
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The plague can take one of three forms: bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic.
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Plague that gets into your respiratory system is known as pneumonic plague.
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However, the plague mutated and became pneumonic by the summer of 1666.
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Untreated pneumonic plague is always deadly, typically within 18983 hours of disease onset.
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One posted earlier this year details how an organism contributed to pneumonic plague.
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Rapid diagnosis is the essential element in curing plague, particularly the pneumonic strain.
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That paid off in November 85033 during an outbreak of bubonic and pneumonic plague.
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That paid off in November 2017 during an outbreak of bubonic and pneumonic plague.
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Pneumonic plague does not pass between people as easily as measles or the flu.
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Symptoms include fever, difficulty in breathing as well as pneumonic infiltrates in the lungs.
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Two people in China were recently diagnosed with pneumonic plague, which is related to bubonic plague.
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Pneumonic plague is "fatal if left untreated" with side effects like coughing up blood and vomiting.
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Plague comes in three variants — bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic — depending on its location in the body.
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Pneumonic plague is caused by the Yersinia pestis bacteria, usually found in small mammals and their fleas.
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"It can move to the blood, causing septicemic plague, or the lungs, causing pneumonic plague," Hinnebusch says.
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However, pneumonic plague is a little different and it is known for causing rapid pneumonia and death.
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This year, most cases were in cities and of the pneumonic variety, which is spread by coughing.
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Two patients from Inner Mongolia were quarantined in Beijing suffering from pneumonic plague, authorities said last week.
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After the bacterium Y. pestis infects its host, it can result in bubonic, septicemic, or pneumonic plague.
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In addition, two thirds of the cases are of the pneumonic plague, the deadliest form of the disease.
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Pneumonic plague is more virulent or damaging and is an advanced form characterized by a severe lung infection.
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The pneumonic plague is the deadlier of the three types, which also include the bubonic and septicemic plagues.
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Samples from patients in Seychelles suspected to be ill with pneumonic plague tested negative, the WHO reported Tuesday.
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This news comes only a week after two people were reported to have gotten the plague's pneumonic varietal.
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Pneumonic plague is highly contagious and transmissible between humans — it can be spread when an infected person coughs.
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Pneumonic plague causes a rapid and severe form of pneumonia that can lead to respiratory failure and shock.
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They've also seen an unexpected number of cases of pneumonic plague, which transmits more easily from person to person.
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Of the 684 cases reported as of October 12, 474 were pneumonic plague, 156 bubonic and 1 septicemic plague.
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The least common plague — pneumonic, which the two patients from Inner Mongolia are experiencing — is also the most deadly.
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The majority of cases, 67%, were the pneumonic form of the disease, which can spread from person to person.
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"It's spread from person to person through aerosolized droplets which are breathed in and cause primary pneumonic plague," says Hinnebusch.
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Ten cities were reporting pneumonic cases as of September 30, including the capital, Antananarivo, increasing chances of the disease spreading.
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Pneumonic plague is one of three types of infectious disease known as plague caused by the same bacterium, Yersinia pestis.
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Still, it's a highly unusual epidemic right now in Madagascar, with so many pneumonic plague cases so early in the season.
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Pneumonic tularemia is the most serious form of the disease and is most likely to occur when the bacterium is inhaled.
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This outbreak is unusually worrying because most new cases are in cities and are pneumonic plague, the form transmitted by coughing.
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"A person with pneumonic plague is a public health nightmare," said Joe Hinnebusch, a plague researcher at the National Institutes of Health.
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A rarer pneumonic form, which spreads to the lungs and can be transmitted by sneezing or coughing, is invariably fatal without treatment.
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Untreated bubonic plague can turn into the more serious pneumonic plague, which causes rapidly developing pneumonia, after bacteria spread to the lungs.
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Any type of tularemia can become life-threatening if left untreated, says Dr. Spec, but the pneumonic type is the most dangerous.
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But the plague — bubonic as well as pneumonic — continues to affect people from Africa to Asia, from South America to North America.
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Untreated pneumonic plague is always deadly; patients typically die within 25 hours of disease onset — unless they're lucky enough to get antibiotics.
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Untreated bubonic plague can turn into the more serious pneumonic plague, which causes rapidly developing pneumonia after bacteria spread to the lungs.
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Untreated pneumonic plague is always deadly; patients die typically within 24 hours of disease onset — unless they're lucky enough to get antibiotics.
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Bubonic plague has a case-fatality ratio of 30% to 60%, while pneumonic plague, when left untreated, is always fatal, according to WHO.
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That may be what happened in China in November, when two people from Inner Mongolia came down with the pneumonic plague, CNN reported.
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Also unlike previous outbreaks, this year's involves mostly pneumonic plague, a more dangerous form of the disease than the much more common bubonic plague.
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Of those infections, 77% were clinically diagnosed as pneumonic -- or pulmonary -- plague, a form of the infection that can spread from person to person.
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Story at a glance Two patients in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia have been diagnosed with pneumonic plague, according to state media Xinhua.
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According to the ministry, a 34-year-old man who fell ill after returning from Madagascar on Friday has tested positive for pneumonic plague.
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Of note: Pneumonic plague, which the Chinese patients have, is the only form of the plague that can be spread from person to person.
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Three different transmission models were tested: through the air (pneumonic), by infected fleas on rats, and via infected fleas and lice on humans and clothing.
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Two people in China were diagnosed with the pneumonic plague, sparking fears of an outbreak of the highly contagious and deadly disease among Chinese citizens.
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But the pneumonic plague is "almost always fatal if not treated," the U.S. CDC says, and occurs when the plague bacteria gets into the lungs.
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There are three main types of plague in humans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: bubonic plague, pneumonic plague and septicemic plague.
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At the same time, the newly discovered strain is very much like the version of Y. pestis we're already familiar with, containing the genes responsible for the deadliness of the modern pneumonic plague, for example (the plague manifests in two different forms, bubonic and pneumonic, the former being an infection of the lymphatic system and the latter being an infection of the respiratory system).
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While a live attenuated oral vaccine has shown some promise against pneumonic plague, it does not offer protection against bubonic plague, according to one 2015 study.
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Patients diagnosed with pneumonic plague, which causes high fevers and shortness of breath, sometimes first contract the closely related and more well-known disease, bubonic plague.
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The epidemic remains active in 12 districts, and among the total cases reported, 61% are said to be the pneumonic plague, according to the UN office.
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Pneumonic plague infects the lungs, while septicemic plague infects the blood, and bubonic plague, the most common form, typically presents with painful and swollen lymph nodes.
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Pneumonic plague may be less famous than the bubonic form, but it's even more deadly, and that's what the first two patients have come down with.
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Pneumonic plague attacks the lungs and spreads from person to person through droplets from coughing, like a cold, while bubonic plague spreads only from fleas to humans.
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They sought treatment on Tuesday in a hospital in Beijing's Chaoyang District, where they were diagnosed with pneumonic plague, according to the government office of the district.
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The plague comes in three varieties: Pneumonic plague is an infection of the lungs; septicemic plague is a blood infection; and bubonic plague affects the lymphatic system.
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They knew that there were a number of varieties of Yersinia pestis, the most common of which are pneumonic and bubonic -- the type that causes large sores.
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Seychelles health authorities reported a probable case of pneumonic plague on Oct 10 in a 34-year-old man returning from a visit to Madagascar, the WHO said.
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Nearly 70 percent of cases in Madagascar have been pneumonic plague, a form spread human-to-human that is more dangerous than bubonic plague and can trigger epidemics.
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In late September, a man from the Seychelles, in Madagascar to take part in the Indian Ocean Club Championship basketball tournament, died in a hospital from pneumonic plague.
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Chinese health officials say there is an "extremely low" chance that these two cases are the start of a larger outbreak of pneumonic plague, the Washington Post reports.
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Last November, the country's Center for Disease Control alerted the public to an outbreak of pneumonic plague in the sparsely populated Inner Mongolia, after only two cases emerged.
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Meanwhile, septicemic plague occurs when the plague-causing bacteria Yersinia pestis enters the bloodstream, and pneumonic plague (the rarest form) is contracted by inhaling the bacteria into the lungs.
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Humans can be infected through flea bites, unprotected contact with bodily fluids or contaminated materials and the inhalation of droplets or small particles from a patient with pneumonic plague.
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In both cases, the two patients from Inner Mongolia were quarantined at a facility in the capital after being diagnosed with pneumonic plague, health authorities said at the time.
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The unusual spread of pneumonic plague in this outbreak was due to one infected person who traveled to find care early in the outbreak, infecting people along the way.
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Two people from the sparsely populated region of Inner Mongolia were found to have pneumonic plague, a highly infectious disease related to bubonic plague, at a hospital in Beijing.
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People in Madagascar are scrambling to get their hands on antibiotics and face masks, while public gatherings have been canceled, as a rare pneumonic plague epidemic spreads across the country.
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An initial diagnostic test on the Seychelles man had been "weakly positive" for pneumonic plague, but definitive laboratory results are expected from the Institute Pasteur in Paris, the WHO said.
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Even pneumonic plague's spread to the capital last year was met with mild concern, because the chance of the viral disease jumping from the island to other countries was low.
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Nearly 600 of the reported cases in Madagascar were the pneumonic form, which is spread human-to-human and is more dangerous than bubonic plague spread by fleas, it said.
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In late September, a man from the Seychelles -- who was in Madagascar to take part in the Indian Ocean Club Championship basketball tournament -- died in a hospital from pneumonic plague.
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Unlike the more common bubonic plague — which spreads from rats to humans via fleas — pneumonic plague spreads from person to person through coughing and can be fatal within 24 hours.
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This outbreak alarms health officials because it has reached several Malagasy cities, including the capital, Antananarivo, and because most cases are of the pneumonic form, which is spread by coughing.
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At least 3 people in China were infected with pneumonic plague in November, which is the most dangerous kind, and the only one that can travel from person to person.
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However, this year's outbreak is unusual in both the number of cases and also in the number of pneumonic plague cases, says Hinnebusch, because usually the majority of cases are bubonic.
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Of Madagascar's 114 districts, 40 have reported cases of pneumonic plague and less than 30% of people who have had contact with cases can be traced, according to the UN office.
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Clarification: This story has been updated to reflect that bubonic is the most common form of the plague in humans in the U.S.; the two other forms are pneumonic and septicemic.
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The outbreak was unusual because the majority of plague cases (77%) were pneumonic, which is the most serious form of the plague and the type that can spread from human to human.
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Bubonic plague is the most common form of plague globally and can advance and spread to the lungs, which is more severe type called pneumonic plague, according to the World Health Organization.
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The agency praised Ugandan health workers for vigilance and prompt action in spotting a suspected outbreak of pneumonic plague, which the WHO says is usually fatal unless detected early and treated with antibiotics.
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"The problem is you have to diagnose and start the treatment quickly because it's a rapidly progressing disease — with pneumonic, you only have a couple of days to diagnose and treat," Hinnebusch says.
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More than 120 -- including at least 17 deaths -- are suspected to be pneumonic plague, which is more severe, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, known as IFRC.
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Bites from infected fleas are the most common cause of bubonic plague infection, but the pneumonic variant - where the bacterium is breathed into the lungs - is more dangerous because it is spread through coughing.
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Making things worse, the type of plague that spread is pneumonic, a rare and more dangerous form of the disease that attacks the lungs and passes from person to person through droplets from coughing.
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"If the bubonic plague is treated with antibiotics, there's a relatively high success rate, but if it's left untreated for a week or so, it can cause septic or pneumonic plague and death," Hinnebusch says.
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More than a century ago, my great grandfather, Wu Lien Teh, vice director of China's Imperial Army Medical College, was tasked with controlling the pneumonic plague in northeastern China that killed nearly everyone it infected.
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Low risk of international spread Extensive screening measures, informed travelers, short incubation periods of pneumonic plague, and increasing operational readiness of surrounding countries and islands has kept the risk of international spread low, said the WHO.
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Pneumonic plague is more virulent or damaging and is an advanced form characterized by a severe lung infection that can be transmitted from person to person via airborne droplets such as through coughing or sneezing, for example.
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Pneumonic plague kills even faster than the better-known bubonic form, which is transmitted by flea bites and gets its name from the infected lymph nodes that form large, swollen "buboes" in the groin, armpits and neck.
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It can develop from a case of bubonic plague or septicemic plague (the latter is very rare), Hinnebusch says, which is called secondary pneumonic plague because it spreads from elsewhere in the body, not from inhaling the bacteria.
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Making things worse, the type of bacteria that spread was the highly contagious pneumonic plague, a rare and more dangerous form of the disease that attacks the lungs and passes from person to person through droplets from coughing.
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But the case that's being handled out of Beijing's Chaoyang Hospital is particularly concerning because it relates to a middle-aged married couple afflicted with a virulent version of the infection called pneumonic plague, according to the New York Times.
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This year, plague arrived earlier than expected, and has become much more contagious as it is now being transmitted from person to person through the air in its pneumonic form, as well as from animals to humans through infected flea bites in its bubonic form.
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Ongoing efforts to control the spread of bubonic and pneumonic plague include seeking out and treating new cases, identifying the method of disease contact, disease follow-up and antibiotic treatment, rodent and flea control, and "safe and dignified burials," the WHO said in a statement.
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Though the nation has abundant natural resources, it has struggled with political corruption, high poverty and pestilence, including a recent outbreak of a rare pneumonic plague that left more than 200 people dead and more than 1,700 infected, according to the World Health Organization.
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It's an unusual outbreak because approximately 67% of those cases are pneumonic, which is the most serious form of the plague, according to a report published last Monday by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Madagascar's National Office for Risk and Disaster Management.
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Though instances of plague are not uncommon on the island, which usually sees around 400 cases a year, the ongoing epidemic involves mostly cases of pneumonic rather than the more common bubonic plague—and that airborne variety of the disease is significantly more transmissible and deadly.
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It's no surprise that there is concern about the children developing pneumonic histoplasmosis, but caves also can be fertile grounds for many other infectious diseases, such as rabies, leptospirosis or tick-borne relapsing fever, said Hosam Zowawi, a research fellow and group leader at the University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research, in a statement from the Australian Science Media Centre.
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When the pneumonic plague struck the northeastern provinces of the Chinese Empire (a region known then as Manchuria) in the autumn of 1910, the Chinese authorities broke with their longstanding opposition to Western medicine: They appointed Wu Lien-teh (also known as Wu Liande), a young and brilliant Cambridge-educated Chinese doctor from British Malaya, to oversee efforts to stem the outbreak.
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The plague, whether it's bubonic, septicemic, or pneumonic, stems from a bacterium named Yersinia pestis, which killed off roughly 25 million Europeans in the 1300s, and is still endemic to the western US. "Humans usually get plague after being bitten by a rodent flea that is carrying the plague bacterium, or by handling an animal infected with plague," according to the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
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