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Plague is a disease caused by bacteria. Over the past several hundred years, there have been three pandemics with high mortality rates. It has been absent from Europe for more than 50 years but continues to affect the Americas, Africa and Asia.
Plague is a bacterial disease that has played an important role in the history of Europe. Three different plague pandemics have occurred in the past centuries, the latest one at the turn of the 19th century, and all with significant mortality worldwide.
7 lip 2022 · Plague is a very severe disease in people, particularly in its septicaemic (systemic infection caused by circulating bacteria in bloodstream) and pneumonic forms, with a case-fatality ratio of 30% to 100% if left untreated.
7 sie 2023 · Plague is a zoonotic infection that has affected humans for thousands of years. In humans, the primary plague syndromes are bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic. All of these result from infection with the gram-negative bacillus Yersinia pestis.
15 maj 2024 · Plague is a potentially life-threatening disease caused by the bacterium, Yersinia pestis. Plague occurs naturally in areas of the western United States, where it circulates among wild rodents and other animals. Plague can be cured with antibiotics, but treatment must be given quickly.
29 paź 2024 · Plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, is a disease that affects humans and other mammals. People typically get infected after being bitten by a rodent flea that is carrying the bacterium or by handling a plague-infected animal.
Clinical presentation suggestive of plague : sudden onset of fever, chills, headache, severe malaise, prostration, painful swelling of lymph nodes; or cough with blood-stained sputum, chest pain, difficulty in breathing
