Plague Bacterial Infectious Diseases

Plague is a severe disease caused by the bacteria, Yersinia pestis. It has several forms - bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, and septicemic plague. It can be treated with antibiotics if the disease is recognized in time. This is the disease that caused the "black death" throughout history. The disease is transmitted by fleas from infected rats and other rodents. I can also spread person to person by body fluids and aerosol droplets.

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• - Scientific and medical information about the organism and disease.
  
• - Features cause, symptoms, diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, and treatment.
  
• - Features photographs, history, paintings, molecular models, and links.
  
• - Factsheet with causes, risk factors, symptoms, treatment, diagnosis, complications, and prevention.
  
• - Factsheet with symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and prognosis.
  
• - Directory of news stories, factsheets, and articles.
  
• - Includes cause, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
  
• - Article by Venkat R Minnaganti, MD.
  
• - A physician's report on bubonic plague infection, transmission patterns, and associated symptoms. Includes pictures of bubonic plague patients as well as a review of septicemic plague and pneumonic plague.
  
• - Includes symptoms, history, treatment, epidemiology, prevention and control, and scientific literature.
  
• - Historical information, pictures, causes, superstitions, and outcomes dealing with the bubonic plague.
  
• - Medical overview aimed at clinicians in identifying and treating plague, along with updated news and links related to the disease.
  
• - Includes cause, symptoms and signs, risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
  
• - Computer graphic showing the structure of Yersinia pestis with an explanation and references.
  
• - Provides information on the effects, history, symptoms, treatment and origins of the Bubonic Plague commonly referred to as The Black Death.
  
• - Discusses the use of the bacteria as a biological weapon.
  
• - Examines "The Black Death" and its devastating effects on people during the Middle Ages.
  
• - The role of trade in transmitting the Black Death.
  
• - World Health Organization information on plague, focusing on recent outbreaks and epidemics.
  
  

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