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Pneumonic PlagueCategory: Infectious Diseases The symptoms are those of a severe "lobular" pneumonia, with bloody sputum containing many bacilli. It is usually rapidly fatal. Death rate may reach ninety per cent. Treatment. Prevention. Prolonged isolation, disinfection of the discharges, cremation of plague victims, destruction of rats, and preventive inoculation of healthy persons with sterilized cultures of the bacillus pestis. Immunity following this procedure is said to last from one to eighteen months. For pain, morphine; for weakness, stimulation; for fever, bathing; for buboes, application of ice, injection of bichloride and excision have been advised. Next: DYSENTERY Previous: Septicemic Plague
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