Word: pasturella
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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Cause of plague is an oval-shaped germ called Pasturella pestis. Two main types of the disease are recognized: bubonic plague, transmitted by fleas, which causes inflammation of the lymph glands; and the deadly pneumonic plague, which may be transmitted by bites from infected animals, or the breath of infected humans. Pneumonic plague usually enters through a bite in the arm, travels rapidly to the lungs and spleen. The patient has a high fever, coughs constantly, cannot get his breath. Usually in three or four days he is dead. There is no specific treatment for plague patients. Antiplague serum, made...
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