Bubonic plague in China
July 9, 2020
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Bubonic Plague
What is plague?
Rodents and humans
2-6 day incubation
50 – 60% fatality
Yersinia pestis bacteria
How it spreads
Person gets bitten by a flea that is infected
Direct contact with infected tissues or fluids, before or after death
Inhaling respiratory droplets after close contact with cats and humans with pneumonic plague
Presentations
Bubonic plague (infected flee bits)
Sudden onset of fever
Headache
Chills
Weakness
One or more swollen, tender and painful lymph nodes (called buboes)
Septicemic plague, (bites of infected fleas, handling an infected animal)
Shock
Bleeding into the skin and other organs
Skin and other tissues may turn black and die, especially on fingers, toes, and the nose
Pneumonic plague (inhaling infectious droplets from infected people)
Rapidly developing pneumonia
Shortness of breath
Chest pain
Cough
CDC
7 cases per year in the UK
History
Yersinia pestis, finds from the Late Bronze Age
524 Plague of Justinian
1348 black death
1665 great plague of London
Third pandemic, 1850s to 1904
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