pneumonic plague
Last reviewed 01/2018
This is a clinical form of Yersinia pestis infection characterised by:
- fulminant pneumonia
- bloody sputum
- marked cyanosis
- high pyrexia
- shallow respiration
Left untreated, most patients will die.
Pneumonic plague is not contracted from a flea bite but from the breath of an individual with septicaemic or pneumonic plague.