Pneumonic Plague, Northern India, 2002

Pneumonic Plague, Northern India, 2002

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Pneumonic Plague in Eastern India

Pneumonic Plague Outbreak, Northern Madagascar, 2011

Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, is endemic to Madagascar, particularly to the central highlands. Although plague has not been previously reported in northern Madagascar, an outbreak of pneumonic plague occurred in this remote area in 2011. Over a 27-day period, 17 suspected, 2 presumptive, and 3 confirmed human cases were identified, and all 15 untreated 20 patients died. Molecu...

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...