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How do you get it? You get primary pneumonic plague when you inhale plague bacteria from an infected person or animal. You usually have to be in direct or close contact with the ill person or animal. You get secondary pneumonic plague if you have untreated bubonic or septicemic plague that spreads to your lungs. What are the symptoms? Symptoms usually develop within 1 to 3 days after you are exposed to airborne droplets of plague bacteria. Pneumonia begins quickly, with shortness of breath, chest pain, cough, and sometimes bloody or watery sputum. Other symptoms include fever, headache, and weakness. Is it contagious?Pneumonic plague is contagious. If someone has pneumonic plague and coughs, droplets containing Y. pestis bacteria from their lungs are released into the air. An uninfected person can then develop pneumonic plague by breathing in those droplets. Y. pestis is found in animals throughout the world, most commonly in rats but occasionally in other wild animals, such as prairie dogs. Most cases of human plague are caused by bites of infected animals or the infected fleas that feed on them. In almost all cases, only the pneumonic form of plague (see Forms of Plague) can be passed from person to person. A health care provider can diagnose plague by doing laboratory tests on blood or sputum, or on fluid from a lymph node. When plague is suspected and diagnosed early, a health care provider can prescribe specific antibiotics (generally streptomycin or gentamycin). Certain other antibiotics are also effective. Left untreated, Bubonic Plague bacteria can quickly multiply in the bloodstream, causing septicemic plague, or even progress to the lungs, causing pneumonic plague.
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∙ 12y agoNone, and it is still around. Small animals are often found with the plague and sometimes people still die of it. The big difference we know what it is, we know how it is spread, and we have a better chance of stopping it when it does show up.
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∙ 12y agoAntibiotics such as gentamycin or doxycycline.
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∙ 12y agosymptomatic
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How priests cured the plague?
Priests didn't cure the plague. No one cured it. The plague began and ended with cure.
Can you cure pneunmonic plague?
No you cannot cure it.
How did they cure the Pneumonic plague?
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How to cure Bubonic Plague?
To cure the Bubonic Plague, you must take antibiotics from a doctor that actually knows how to get rid of it.
Is there a cure for Bubonic Plague?
Modern medicine can effectively cure bubonic plague yes.
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.
Can you prevent Bubonic Plague?
To be cured from the Bubonic Plague you can use antibiodics. In the previous bubonic plagues when it was a plague there was no cure.
Did popping buboes cure the plague?
no but it helped
What was the cure to the plague?
There was no cure. After a great deal of dead bodies, the plague died out as a result of a low population. If the plague where to break out today there would be no cure. The only way to prevent it is to put the person in quarantine and to give the person the best medical help possible.
Was eating their own poo a cure for black plague?
There was no cure for plague, although a lot of people did some incredibly stupid things in the hopes that it would be. This was one of them.
What was the cure in the black death?
There was only a cure available for the bubonic plague, (one of the plgaues of the two plagues of the black death), the main cure which in some cases worked was to pop the boils which were side affects of the plague and letting the puss out would somehow eliminate the plague from the body.
What can you do if you think you have the plague?
See your doctor for antibiotics to cure it.
