What type of laboratory test(s) would NOT be conducted if you suspect a patient has contracted plague
Gas Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry would not be conducted. The first thing that would happen if plague is suspected is immediate isolation. Contact with an infected patient needs to be minimized and the hospital needs to be equipped to handle that patient.
What type of laboratory test(s) would NOT be conducted if you suspect a patient has contracted plague
Gas Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry would not be conducted. The first thing that would happen if plague is suspected is immediate isolation. Contact with an infected patient needs to be minimized and the hospital needs to be equipped to handle that patient.
When the plague happened there were no labs or testing. They didn't know or understand the transmission of disease or anything about virus and disease.
With contagious infections, it is impossible to trace to "Patient Zero", the very first patient to get the infection.
The bubonic plague.
The poisoning of French Troops that had contracted Bubonic Plague in Egypt was evil.
Bubonic. CBRNE-December 2011
by seeing how a bird reacted to the patient.
Australia has had the bubonic plague. The bubonic plague first hit Australia in January 1900 and continued through to July, when a major cleansing operation was conducted in Sydney. However, ships coming from overseas continued to cause more outbreaks of the plague in Australia right through to 1925. During this time, there were 1371 cases of plague reported, and 535 deaths.
People who contracted the Bubonic plague (the Black Death) got black buboes in their armpits and groin area before they died.
Doctors did exist at the time of the medieval black plague, however, they did not know anything about the cause or treatment of the plague, and were useless. Medical science was extremely primitive at that period of history.