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| | Bubonic plague -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
 | | The bacteria are transferred from the (The fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped by the heart) blood of infected rats to the rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopsis). | | | An (A philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable) existentialist novel centered around an outbreak of the plague. | | | These subjects, called "logs", were then studied by (Cutting so as to separate into pieces) dissection, some while still living and conscious. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/b/bu/bubonic_plague.htm
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| | eMedicine - Plague : Article by Venkat R Minnaganti, MD |
| | Chloramphenicol is the preferred drug of choice in meningeal plague or for patients with hypotension. | | | Pharyngeal plague causes pharyngeal erythema and painful and tender anterior cervical nodes. | | | On chest x-ray films, patchy infiltrates, consolidation, or a persistent cavity is observed in patients with pneumonic plague. |
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http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic3381.htm
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| | Plague Facts |
| | Prevention consists of controlling rodent fleas, educating the public and the medical community in places where plague occurs, and using preventive medicines and vaccines as appropriate. | | | The drug of choice is streptomycin, but several other antibiotics are also effective. | | | Pneumonic plague can spread from person to person. |
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http://www.astdhpphe.org/infect/plague.html
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| | IDSA Plague: Current, comprehensive information on pathogenesis, microbiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment |
| | Distinguishing primary pneumonic plague from secondary hematogenous spread to the lungs can be difficult. | | | However, more recent reports have demonstrated successful outcomes with antibiotic therapy, including normal gestational periods and delivery of healthy infants (see References: Mann 1977, Welty 1985). | | | Xenopsylla cheopis (the oriental rat flea; nearly worldwide in moderate climates) |
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http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/idsa/bt/plague/biofacts/plaguefactsheet.html
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| | Plague |
| | Results obtained from laboratory animal, but not human, experience, indicate that quinolone antibiotics, such as ofloxacin and ciprofloxacin, may also be effective. | | | Usual supportive therapy required includes IV crystalloids and hemodynamic monitoring. | | | Use Standard Precautions for healthcare workers exposed to bubonic plague and Droplet Precautions for healthcare workers exposed to pneumonic plague until the patient has been on antibiotic therapy for at least 48 hours and there has been a favorable clinical response to treatment. |
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http://www.nbc-med.org/SiteContent/MedRef/OnlineRef/FieldManuals/medman/Plague.htm
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| | Plague |
| | Common wisdom in many areas affected by plague had long held that people should avoid handling dead rats — and even should run away from them. | | | Currently, antibiotics offer effective preventive therapy if you're at risk or have been exposed to plague. | | | Streptomycin and gentamicin are the most effective drugs against plague. |
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| | CDC Plague Home Page - CDC Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases (DVBID) |
| | They are usually associated with infected rats and rat fleas that live in the home. | | | Male Xenopsylla cheopis (oriental rat flea) engorged with blood. | | | Today, modern antibiotics are effective against plague, but if an infected person is not treated promptly, the disease is likely to cause illness or death. |
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http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/plague
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| | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Plague |
| | Certain forms of the plague can be spread from human to human. | | | Calling your health care provider Return to top | | | Patients with pneumonic plague are strictly isolated from other patients. |
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000596.htm
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| | WHO Plague |
| | Plague vaccines at one time were widely used but have not proven to be an approach that could prevent plague effectively. | | | Effective treatment methods enable almost all plague patients to be cured if diagnosed in time. | | | Rapid diagnosis and treatment is essential to reduce complications and fatality. |
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| | Plague: Yersinia pestis |
| | Streptomycin is the drug of choice, ß-lactams are not useful. | | | As the epidemic of bubonic plague develops (especially under conditions of severe overcrowding, malnutrition, and heavy flea infestation), it eventually shifts into a predominately pneumonic form, which is far more difficult to control and which has 100 percent mortality. | | | Death: The patient usually dies of endotoxic shock. |
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http://www.kcom.edu/faculty/chamberlain/Website/lectures/lecture/plague.htm
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| | Plague, NIAID Fact Sheet |
| | At this point, the disease can be transmitted to someone else. | | | Within 1 to 3 days of exposure to airborne droplets of pneumonic plague, fever, headache, weakness, rapid onset of pneumonia with shortness of breath, chest pain, cough, and sometimes bloody or watery sputum develop. | | | Septicemic plague is rarely spread from person to person. |
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http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/plague.htm
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| | Agripedia Pneumonic Plague |
| | The pneumonic plague could be spread from human to human through cough droplets. | | | These infections were caused by an organism (bacillus) which was present primarily in rats (but occurred in other rodents as well) and could be transmitted by flea bite to humans. | | | The main characteristic of the pneumonic plague an infection of the lungs. |
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http://www.ca.uky.edu/agripedia/glossary/pnplague.htm
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| | CDC Plague Information Emergency Preparedness & Response |
| | See also the Abstract, a concise, bulleted summary of the full article. | | | Consensus Statement: Plague as a Biological Weapon: Medical and Public Health Management | | | Eight-lesson Web-based module designed to teach you about the natural epidemiology of plague and how to manage it as both a natural disease and an intentional attack |
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http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/plague/index.asp
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| | Plague Fact Sheet - Illinois Department of Public Health |
| | Isolation can be discontinued after 48 hours of appropriate antibiotic therapy if the patient demonstrates clinical improvement. | | | Infection of the lungs with the plague bacterium causes the pneumonic form of plague, a severe respiratory illness. | | | Can pneumonic plague be spread from person to person? |
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http://www.idph.state.il.us/Bioterrorism/plaguefctsht.htm
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| | What you should know about pneumonic plague |
| | Pneumonic plague is of particular concern because it can be spread from person to person. | | | Plague can be transmitted and cause illness in one or more of these forms: | | | Antibiotics are used to prevent illness in those who have been exposed to pneumonic plague. |
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http://www.doh.wa.gov/phepr/handbook/plague.htm
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| | Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) About Plague |
| | Plague is a disease caused by Yersinia pestis (Y. | | | Pneumonic plague affects the lungs and is transmitted when a person breathes in Y. | | | Early in the response to a bioterrorism attack, these drugs would be tested to determine which is most effective against the particular weapon that was used. |
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| | AllRefer.com - plague (Pathology) - Encyclopedia |
| | Invasion of the lungs by the organism (pneumonic plague) may occur as a complication of the bubonic form or as a primary infection. | | | Bubonic plague, the most common form, is characterized by very high fever, chills, prostration, delirium, hemorrhaging of the small capillaries under the skin, and enlarged, painful lymph nodes (buboes), which suppurate and may discharge. | | | Pneumonic plague is rapidly fatal and is the only type that can be spread from person to person (by droplet spray) without intermediary transmission by flea. |
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http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/P/plague.html
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| | Introduction: Pneumonic plague - WrongDiagnosis.com |
| | Researching symptoms of Pneumonic plague: Further information about the symptoms of Pneumonic plague is available including a list of symptoms of Pneumonic plague, or alternatively return to research other symptoms in the symptom center. | | | Treatments for Pneumonic plague: Various information is available about treatments available for Pneumonic plague, prevention of Pneumonic plague, or research treatments for other diseases. | | | Pneumonic plague: Severe flea-borne bacterial disease affecting the lungs |
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| | Symptoms of Pneumonic plague - WrongDiagnosis.com |
| | Furthermore, symptoms of Pneumonic plague may vary on an individual basis for each patient. | | | This symptom information has been gathered from various sources, may not be fully accurate, and may not be the full list of symptoms of Pneumonic plague. | | | General information about symptoms of Pneumonic plague: The symptom information on this page attempts to provide a list of some possible symptoms of Pneumonic plague. |
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http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/p/pneumonic_plague/symptoms.htm
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| | Black Death - the outbreak of Plague at Maryborough |
| | Beubonic Plague is a disease which develops in rats. | | | There was no known cure for these plagues until streptomycin was discovered in 1943. | | | This advanced form of the disease affects the lungs, and kills within a few days. |
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| | AllRefer Health - Plague (Bubonic Plague, Pneumonic Plague, Septicemic Plague) |
| | You are here : AllRefer.com > Health > Diseases and Conditions > Plague | | | It can also be transmitted from human to human when a plague victim develops pneumonia and spreads infected droplets by coughing. | | | Plague is transmitted among rodents and to humans by flea bite or ingestion of the feces of fleas. |
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| | Pneumonic Plague Seen in Congo Outbreak (washingtonpost.com) |
| | Antibiotics and other modern medicines have made both forms of the disease uncommon in the developed world, but plague is endemic throughout much of Africa and the developing world. | | | But health officials expressed a high degree of certainty, based on the reported symptoms and course of the disease, that they were dealing with an outbreak of pneumonic plague. | | | They questioned the reliability of the tests, which they said were new and might miss some variations of the disease. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36428-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_world/africa
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| | The Hypothetical Effects of a Release of Pneumonic Plague in New York City |
| | Traditionally doctors treat victims of the plague with antibiotics. The antibiotics of choice are streptomycin, gentamicin, ciprofloxacin, or doxycycline and are generally prescribed for 10-14 days (USAMRIID, 35). Pneumatic Plague is usually fatal if antibiotic therapy is not started within 1 day of the onset of symptoms (USAMRIID, 35). | | | Plague as a Biological Weapon Medical and Public | | | Plague as a Biological Weapon Medical and Public |
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http://www.globalterrorism101.com/PlagueinNYC.html
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| | Facts about Pneumonic Plague |
| | A naturally occurring out break is unlikely due to advances in antibiotics and public health conditions. | | | Person-to-person transmission of the disease happens through the inhalation of respiratory droplets in the air. | | | There is no vaccine against the pneumonic plague. |
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| | BBC NEWS Health Plague outbreak kills 60 in Congo |
| | Humans are generally infected with plague by rodents and fleas, but the pneumonic form of the disease can also be transmitted from person to person through respiratory droplets. | | | Bubonic plague is endemic in parts of Africa, including the DRC, but pneumonic plague, which occurs when bacterium infects the lung, has a very high fatality rate and is "invariably" deadly when left untreated, the WHO said. | | | It is thought to be the worst outbreak of pneumonic plague, which affects victims' lungs, for 50 years. |
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| | Deadly Dengue Epidemic Grows Ahead of Rio Carnival |
| | Pneumonic plague is probably a 500 gram disease. | | | When the vitamin C is destroyed by all the free radicals produced by the disease, then the patient has acute induced scurvy and the white cells shut down. | | | When a severe, toxic disease such as pneumonic plague wipes out all of the vitamin C in the body, the defenses of the white cells are eliminated because white cells need a little vitamin C to accomplish phagocytosis. |
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| | Pneumonic plague kills 43 |
| | According to the WHO, of three forms of the plague, the pneumonic variety is the most virulent. | | | A medical team comprised of representatives from the NGO Doctors Without Borders, Medair, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health had assessed the situation in the area, Ilunga said. | | | Samples from the infected people analysed at the Bio Medical Research Institute in the capital, Kinshasa, confirmed the plague. |
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| | Pictures of bubonic - Hardin MD : Bubonic Plague / Pneumonic Plague |
| | Hardin MD : Bubonic Plague / Pneumonic Plague | | | Unfortunately, there aren't many good pictures of bubonic plague bacteria, which would be invisible to the human eye. | | | Pictures of bubonic - Hardin MD : Bubonic Plague / Pneumonic Plague |
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| | * Anthrax - (Disease): Definition |
| | anthrax, Bacillus anthracis, inhalation anthrax, cutaneous anthrax, skin anthrax, plague, Yersinia pestis, bubonic plague, septicemic plague, pneumonic plague,... |
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| | drughubs.com - pneumonic plague |
| | At eBay you can find practically anything, even pneumonic plague. | | | Find results for pneumonic plague and anything else you are looking for instantly! | | | JoltSearch is an excellent resource for quality sites on Pneumonic Plague and much more! |
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