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As soon as a diagnosis of suspected plague is made, the patient should be isolated, and local and state health departments should be notified. Confirmatory laboratory work should be initiated, including blood cultures and examination of lymph node specimens if possible. Drug therapy should begin as soon as possible after the laboratory specimens are taken. The drugs of choice are streptomycin or gentamycin, but a number of other antibiotics are also effective (please read the box below for more information about plague treatment).
Those individuals closely associated with the patient, particularly in cases with pneumonia, should be traced, identified, and evaluated. Contacts of pneumonic plague patients should be placed under observation or given preventive antibiotic therapy, depending on the degree and timing of contact.
Source : WHO's Plague Manual (Chapter 3)
What else can I help you with?
How can it be arteriosclerosis treat?
Arteriosclerosis is the build up of plague in the arteries. Treatment of arteriosclerosis can be achieved with cholesterol lowering drugs, and in severe cases surgery.
Do capillaries dissolve nutrients wastes and oxygen?
Yes, they are the super highways for everything going through the body... well maybe small highways, because the arteries are the super highways.
What was the second plague?
a plague of frogsthe great plague of eyam
What plague did Giogione die of?
The black plague. The plague was transferred by rats.
Why was the doctor in 1664 was call the plague doctor?
Because they tried to cure the plague. Doctor who cures the plague --> plague doctor.
The arteries that are also called distributing arteries are called?
muscular arteries
Can you give me a a sentence with the word plague?
The plague is a big event in history.I'm as disorganized as a plague pit at the moment.The plague orginated in Europe.Here is the sentence:Can you use plague in a sentence?orI dont know how to use plague in a sentence.The plague hit many citizens in the Middle Ages and killed almost 2/5ths of the population.One sentence with the word plague is "The plague is a very contagious disease."
What was the third plague?
the-plague of gnats
What plague attacked the lungs?
The plague that attacked the lungs was the pneumonic plague, a particularly devastating form of the bubonic plague. There is a link below.
What type of plague was the Black Plague?
Yersinia Pestis was the microbe responsible for Bubonic Plague.
Do arteries reproduce or does the human body make new arteries?
Arteries do neither
What are the vessels that take blood away from the heart?
The arteries
