Outbreak of human
pneumonic plague with dog-to-human and possible human-to human transmission--Colorado, June-July 2014.
A sub-unit vaccine elicits IgG in serum, spleen cell cultures and bronchial washings and protects immunized animals against
pneumonic plague. Vaccine.
The proportion of [E.sub.H] progresses and becomes infected by bubonic plague [I.sub.HB], septicemic plague [I.sub.HS], or
pneumonic plague [I.sub.HP] at the rate [[alpha].sub.2] and proportion to [v.sub.1], [v.sub.2], or [v.sub.3], respectively.
Overheim et al., "Immunization with recombinant V10 protects cynomolgus macaques from lethal
pneumonic plague," Infection and Immunity, vol.
Like anthrax and
pneumonic plague, tularemia organism could also be used in a biological attack.
Pneumonic plague is spread through the air and can be passed from person to person through coughing, according to the World Health Organisation.
Two people are reported to have died from highly infectious
pneumonic plague in a Tibetan town in China's northwestern Qinghai Province, prompting authorities to seal off the town of 10,000, state media reported Monday.
In Kansas City, Mo., thousands of Americans are falling ill or dying, Experts from the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta confirm that what they originally thought was an aggressive strain of influenza is actually the highly contagious, and often fatal,
pneumonic plague. A disease similar to the bubonic plague that was the scourge of Medieval Europe has resurfaced in the heartland of America, and health-care officials are in a race against time to save lives and contain its spread.
A wounded terrorist infected with a deadly
pneumonic plague virus boards a transcontinental train, prompting the authorities to take extreme steps to save millions from infection.
"Thank God she had the bubonic plague because if she had had the
pneumonic plague, I would have been dead in 24 hours," Dr.