Pneumonic+plague

//**Pneumonic Plague**//

The common name of the Pneumonic plague is called "The Black Plague" or "The Black Death". The scientific name of this disease is called the Pneumonic plague.
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//**What causes it? How is it transmitted?**// The Pneumonic plague can be caused in two ways. Firstly it can be caused if inhaled aerosolized plague bacteria, it can also be caused when septicemic plague spreads into lung tissue from the bloodstream. The Pneumonic plague can be transmitted from person to person. Pneumonic plague is very deathly because when the victim of the Pneumonic plague coughs and passes on the bacteria it can kill 90%-95% of a population.

//**What are the symptoms? How long does it last? Is it deadly?**// The most apparent symptoms of the Pneumonic plague is coughing, often with hemoptysis(coughing blood). With the Pneumonic plague, the first signs of the illness are fever, headache, weakness and rapidly developing Pneumonia with shortness of breath, chest pain, cough and sometimes bloody or watery sputum. The pneumonia progresses for two to four days and may cause respiratory failure. The mortality rate rate from untreated patients are 100%

//Can it be cured? If so, how? If not, is there any way that we can at least treat it?//
The Pneumonic plague cannot be cured but it can be treated by giving antibiotics within the 24 hours of the first symptoms to reduce the risk of death.

__//Sources://__ 1.Wikipedia, Pneumonic plague. Retrieved 8 July 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonic_plague 2.Wikipedia, Plague (disease). Retrieved 21 August 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_(disease)