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I'm going to risk being mocked for embodying the famous xkcd cartoon. However, the bubonic and pneumonic forms of "the plague" aren't interchangeable. Both are caused by the same bacterium, Yersinia pestis, but pneumonic plague infects the lungs, spreads from person to person via airborne droplets, and kills fast if untreated. The window for treatment is short, which is one of the reasons it's so deadly. Do I have pneumonia or pneumonic plague?
yeah, sorry… your boyfriend was given Pneumonia by Frisk Undertale … yeah he's dead now… sorry
It sure would be nice if people would read news articles before posting links to fearmonger about the ~next pandemic~
The patient was recently treated at an emergency department in Flagstaff and died the same day, Northern Arizona Healthcare said.
A person in Arizona has died of plague. Yes, that plague. The one that killed 1/3 of Europe's population back in the Middle Ages. But the only reason that this is newsworthy is because everyone's heard of the plague, and a headline like that is going to get clicks. As per the article, the US sees an average of seven reported human plague cases each year, and they usually stem from the bite of an infected rodent flea (if that sounds familiar, it's because that hasn't changed since the Middle Ages) or from handling an animal carrying the disease. Seven cases really isn't that many in a country like America, home to close to 350 million people, and modern medicine and hygiene standards (plus a short incubation period) mean that it can be treated with antibiotics and that spread isn't all that likely.
‘Epidemic of Pneumonic Plague in Manchuria’, ''Le Petit Journal'’, Sunday Supplement, Feb. 19, 1911 Source Amended re-post from 2016
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JACK PALANCE in his feature film debut.
I love Jack Palace, he's sublime in everything. His sharp cheekbones and velvet voice. He's always perfect for the villain or the dark brooding hero.
Richard Widmark, another good clever actor, one of my only frames of reference to him is "To The Devil a Daughter". I'm sure I've seen other movies with him, but I was too young a kid to notice.
Ironically it's about a stow away guy who's carrying pneumonic plague and spreading it and gets killed in a card game for cheating.
And it's made 72 years ago and even some of the characters in the movie don't want to take their inoculations. LMAO. Humans never change.
Two patients have been diagnosed in Beijing with the most dangerous form of the plague – the medieval disease also known as the Black Death.
The announcement sent shock waves rippling through China's northeastern capital as authorities attempted to tamp down fears of an epidemic by censoring Chinese-language news of the hospitalization.
On Tuesday, Beijing authorities announced a municipal hospital had taken in a married couple from Inner Mongolia, a sparsely populated autonomous region in northwest China, seeking treatment for pneumonic plague. One patient is stable while the other is in critical condition but not deteriorating, according to Beijing's health commission.
The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention assured the public on Weibo, a Chinese social media site that is the equivalent of Twitter, that chances of a plague outbreak are "extremely low." The city's health commission has quarantined the infected patients, provided preventative care for those exposed to the couple and sterilized the relevant medical facilities, the center said.
Police are also guarding the quarantined emergency room of Chaoyang hospital, where the infected patients were first received and diagnosed, according to Caixin, an independent Chinese news outlet.
Of the three versions of the disease, pneumonic plague is the only one that can be transmitted from one person to another by coughing, for example. The other variants are typically spread by infected fleas or animals.
Pneumonic plague has symptoms of respiratory failure similar to pneumonia. Left untreated, it is fatal.
Genetic sequencing research shows the Black Death actually originated in or near China before variations of the plague spread to Europe and Africa and killed tens of millions during the 14th century .
Chinese health authorities reassured Beijing's residents this week that the most recent two cases of pneumonic plague did not pose a threat. "City residents should go to work normally and continue to seek medical treatment from hospitals. There is no need to worry about the risk of infection," the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said on its social media account.
That has not allayed widespread concern that the government is intentionally downplaying or even omitting information about the cases. On Weibo, which is China's equivalent of Twitter, users expressed dissatisfaction with the delays in making the plague cases public.
The government publicly confirmed the illness on November 12. But Li Jifeng, a doctor at Chaoyang Hospital where the plague patients received treatment, wrote in a personal blog post on Wednesday that the infected couple was first transported to Beijing nine days earlier, on November 3.
The doctor's blog post, published on China's popular messaging platform WeChat, was quickly removed by censors.
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Rewind. Two people got the fucking plague. The Chinese government withheld the info from the public for a week and some. Then told the public to chill out because the chances of getting the contagious airborne disease is “extremely low.” Then they started deleting receipts. Chilllle...
Bubonic plague symptoms and signs include painful and enlarged or swollen lymph nodes (an enlarged lymph node due to plague is called a bubo), chills, headache, fever, and weakness. Septicemic plague (Black Death or black plague) symptoms and signs include fever, weakness, abdominal pain, chills, and shock. Tissue bleeding and death may cause the dying tissues to appear black. Pneumonic plague symptoms and signs include characteristic pneumonia symptoms like chest pain, shortness of breath, cough, fever, chills, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.
