A surface protease helps Yersinia pestis plow its way through the body during pneumonic plague. During the 14th through 16th centuries, Y. pestis caused a pandemic of plague that killed a third of ...
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 ...
Medics are struggling to cope with an influx of ill people This year however the majority of cases are of pneumonic plague, which affects the lungs and is transmitted through coughing. It is ...
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 ...
Bubonic plague doesn’t spread from person to person, the CDC said. Other forms of plague include pneumonic, which happens when the bacteria infects the lungs; and septicemic, when the bacteria ...
MERS-CoV, a viral disease caused by a novel coronavirus, was first identified in a pneumonic patient in Saudi Arabia in 2012. Patient zero died shortly after contracting the virus, whose symptoms ...