PNEUMONIC PLAGUE – AUTOPSY FINDINGS

Pneumonic plague.

The primary pneumonic plague outbreaks in Oakland in 1919 and Los Angeles in 1924 constitute good points of reference for epidemiological observations and experimental studies on this form of plague. Retrospective analysis of them reveals some still unanswered questions. In the Oakland outbreak (24), a man went hunting in the hills of Contra Costa County in April 1919 and perhaps took home a sq...

Investigation of Pneumonic Plague, Madagascar

To the Editor: In an investigation of a pneumonic plague outbreak in Madagascar, Ramasindrazana et al. reported isolation of Yersinia pestis from 2 patients and seroconversion in 2 additional patients; these data indicated 4 (28.7%) of 14 diagnosed cases among described cases (1). The risk for overestimation of pneumonic plague contagion was illustrated by an outbreak in the Democratic Republic...

Pneumonic Plague Cluster, Uganda, 2004

The public and clinicians have long-held beliefs that pneumonic plague is highly contagious; inappropriate alarm and panic have occurred during outbreaks. We investigated communicability in a naturally occurring pneumonic plague cluster. We defined a probable pneumonic plague case as an acute-onset respiratory illness with bloody sputum during December 2004 in Kango Subcounty, Uganda. A definit...

Pneumonic Plague and Its Treatment

Primary pneumonic plague lias been known to occur in cold climates such as that of Eastern Siberia and Manchuria, but fortunately it is known to occur comparatively rarely in India. In India cases are reported to have occurred mostly in northern parts of India, especially at the base of the Himalayas, but occasionally cases have been reported from other parts as well. It is known that in these ...

Pneumonic Plague in Eastern India