Plague (pneumonic)
This is a clinical form of Yersinia pestis infection characterised by:
- fulminant pneumonia
- bloody sputum
- marked cyanosis
- high pyrexia
- shallow respiration
Left untreated, most patients will die.
Pneumonic plague is not contracted from a flea bite but from the breath of an individual with septicaemic or pneumonic plague.
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