The researchers published their study, "Lung-innervating nociceptor sensory neurons promote pneumonic sepsis during carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae lung infection," in Science Advances.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...