We currently lack a safe, effective and licensed vaccine for pneumonic plague, which is nearly always fatal and has been weaponized. Yersinia pestis overcomes host defense, in a large part ...

But this year it has developed into the deadlier pneumonic version and spread to much more populated areas, including the capital. Madagascar plague: WHO in huge release of antibiotics Madagascar ...

It usually kills the patient within five days. Pneumonic, which infects the lungs, making people cough up blood. This usually kills within three days. The disease is so contagious that people ...

Pneumonic plague affects the lungs and can be easily spread, prompting health officials to quarantine the patients and everyone they had recently come in contact with. The last we heard of the ...

Septicemic plague infects the bloodstream. Pneumonic plague, which can be passed from human to human, occurs when the bacillus moves into the pulmonary system, choking off breathing. Infection in ...