Article: DISABLING KEY PROTEIN MAY GIVE PHYSICIANS TIME TO TREAT PNEUMONIC PLAGUE

Article: Pneumonic plague cluster, Uganda, 2004.(RESEARCH)
Emerging Infectious Diseases;  March 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... clinicians have long-held beliefs that pneumonic plague is highly contagious; inappropriate ... communicability in a naturally occurring pneumonic plague cluster. We defined a probable pneumonic plague case as an acute-onset respiratory ...

Article: Epidemiologic determinants for modeling pneumonic ...
Emerging Infectious Diseases;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Pneumonic plague poses a potentially increasing risk ... through importation of the disease. Pneumonic plague is person-to-person transmissible ... infected rodents bite them. Secondary pneumonic plague may then occur if infection spreads ...

Article: Bubonic and Pneumonic Plague in Uganda.
Same-Day Surgery;  October 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Bubonic and Pneumonic Plague in Uganda Abstract & Commentary ... outbreak of both bubonic and pneumonic plague in northwestern Uganda, where ... during a 51/2 month span. Pneumonic plague (and associated person-to ...

Article: Pneumonic plague kills 3 in China town.(News)
The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA);  August 4, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... deaths caused by the rare but deadly pneumonic plague. The victims all lived in Ziketan ... China News Agency reported Monday. Pneumonic plague is the deadlier relative of the notorious ... there have been sporadic outbreaks of pneumonic plague, most of them in Africa. The few ...

Transcript: Analysis: Pneumonic plague outbreak in the ...
NPR All Things Considered;  February 18, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... NPR) 02-18-2005 Analysis: Pneumonic plague outbreak in the Democratic Republic ... Democratic Republic of Congo have died of pneumonic plague, the most contagious form of plague ... could fit in the case definition of pneumonic plague. And like that, they catch up around ...

Article: Bubonic and pneumonic plague--Uganda, 2006.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report;  July 24, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... nodes to the lungs, resulting in pneumonic plague and the potential for person-to ... plague cases and a possible outbreak of pneumonic plague among residents in the Arua and Nebbi ... bubonic plague, and 12 (12%) had pneumonic plague. The results of this investigation ...

Article: Bubonic and Pneumonic Plague Uganda, 2006
MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report;  July 24, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... nodes to the lungs, resulting in pneumonic plague and the potential for person-to ... plague cases and a possible outbreak of pneumonic plague among residents in the Arua and Nebbi ... bubonic plague, and 12 (12%) had pneumonic plague. The results of this investigation ...