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The patient came to the emergency department and died the same day, said the organization spokesman in the e-mail statement. Coconino, including Flagstaff, said that he had received test results confirming the patient’s condition just over a week ago. He said that the patient was a inhabitant of the unit.
Here’s what you should know about the pneumonic plague, a occasional disease associated with Plague Dymuła.
What is the difference between smoke and pneumonic plagues?
The scourge is an infectious disease caused by Yersinia Pestis bacteria. There are three popular forms of plague: smoky doubt, pneumonic and sepsis.
The scourge of Dymuła, the most notable, killed tens of millions of people in Asia and Europe in the fourteenth century in a pandemic known as black death. In public imagination, this is often considered a medieval disease, but it still exists – in a much easier context to control the context thanks to contemporary antibiotics.
The smoke plague includes lymph node infection, while the pneumonic plague affects the lungs and six to the blood. Types can coexist if bacteria spread in the body after an initial infection.
Pneumonic plague is the only form that can be spread from person to person, not an animal in a person, through droplets in the air, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. But this has not been documented in the United States since 1924. The air infection of unwell animals is slightly more common.
According to the World Health Organization, the pneumonic form is also the most deadly: it is always fatal when it is untreated. Distribution scourge, the most common, has a mortality rate of 30-60%.
How common is the plague?
All forms of plague are occasional. According to CDC in the United States in the United States, an average of seven cases each year and less than the number of deaths were recorded.
Most human cases are purchased in rural parts of the western US – in particular Northern New Mexico, northern Arizona, southern Colorado, California, Southern Oregon and distant west Nevada – where he became rooted in rodent species. The disease can be passed on to people from animals by flea bites or through direct contact of man with an infected animal that can include dogs and cats.
Globally, the scourge is found in animals on every continent except Oceania, while man cases from the 90s. According to WHO, it took place mainly in Africa. The three most endemic countries are the Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar and Peru, he says.
What are the symptoms of the plague?
The scourge of Dymuła is known for his dramatic ready, called “buboes”, caused by lymph nodes swollen with bacterial multiplication.
But they are not necessarily present for pneumonic plague. Patients develop fever, headache, weakness and rapidly developing pneumonia with shortness of breath, chest pain, coughing, and sometimes bloody or water mucus, according to CDC.
Symptoms of sepsis may include chills, abdominal pain, shock, bleeding in the skin and other organs, and the skin and tissues change black and dying.
How is the plague treated and is there a vaccine?
CDC says that there is no vaccine for the plague available in the United States.
It can be easily treated with antibiotics, WHO says, although it is crucial to look for treatment as soon as possible. The incubation period for pneumonic plague can be as tiny as one day and two to eight days for a smoke type.
“The pneumonic plague can be mortal within 18 to 24 hours of the disease, if not treated,” warns WHO.
Health experts also recommend preventive measures, such as wearing insect repellent and the employ of fleas control products on pets, houses protecting rodents and wearing gloves, if it is necessary to deal with a unwell animal.
Adela Suliman contributed to this report.
