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
- If pneumonic plague is suspected, local and state health departments must be notified immediately.
- Bubonic and septicaemic plague are caused by the flea bites, while pneumonic plague can be passed directly between people.
- Clinical features of pneumonic plague include fever, cough with mucopurulent sputum (gram-negative rods may be seen on gram stain), hemoptysis and chest pain.
- Second, other diseases exist that are even more lethal than smallpox: inhalation anthrax and pneumonic plague, for instance, can kill close to 100 percent of the people they infect.
- The pneumonic plague would be the form most likely implicated in the event of an intentional attack.
- During the years of 1616-1619 an epidemic, perhaps either bubonic or pneumonic plague, ravaged the coast of New England from Cape Cod to Maine.
- There are two other varieties of plague: septicaemic plague, which attacks the blood, and pneumonic plague, which attacks the lungs.
- Rumours abounded about the source of the infection: a pneumonic plague spread by rats, an avian acquired respiratory infection from chickens or crows, a new strain of influenza, or even bioterrorism.
- Smallpox is among the most contagious, followed by pneumonic plague and perhaps some hemorrhagic fevers, depending on the type.
- In this form, it could be sprayed through the air, infecting anyone inhaling it and causing pneumonic plague, which affects your lungs and can be spread from person to person.
