NOUN
- a rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person; characterized by lung involvement with chill, bloody expectoration and high fever
How To Use pneumonic plague In A Sentence
- Of the 15 cases following exposure to domestic cats with plague, 4 were primary pneumonic plague.
- Asymptomatic people exposed to plague aerosol or people with suspected pneumonic plague may be given antibiotics for the duration of the risk of exposure plus one week.
- Friday, November 6, 2009 1: 15 am CST Police prepare drill for plague at school The event will use volunteers pretending to have been stricken by the plague to help test the flow of the site, from initial triage through receiving PROOF of being medicated.www. nwherald.com Ukraine pneumonic plague update 969247 affected fto. co.za Ukraine Flu Trends, OFF THE CHARTS www. google.org URGENT** Ukraine and World Pneumonic Plague Information ukraineplague. blogspot.com Ukraine: Influenza or Pneumonic Plague? WN.com - Articles related to First flu virus detector in JDWNRH
- The high level of mortality and infectivity of pneumonic plague is the driving force for the development of new and more effective vaccines.
- At first, bioterrorism - whether it's inhalation anthrax, smallpox, pneumonic plague or something else entirely - will probably feel like the flu.
- Bubonic and pneumonic plague had killed between one-third and one-half of the rural population, causing a severe labor shortage.
- Dr Edmiston explained how anthrax, smallpox variola virus, botulism, and pneumonic plague fit the criteria.
- Person-to-person spread of bubonic or septicemic plague does not occur; however, pneumonic plague is highly contagious.
- It did exist, but it was discontinued by the manufacturer back in 1999, because it didn't seem to prevent the lung form of the plague, pneumonic plague.
- An epidemic of pneumonic plague has hit the Congo among diamond miners recently.
