Pneumonic plague | pathology | Britannica (original) (raw)

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  In plague: Nature of the disease
  …has three clinical forms: bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic. Bubonic plague is the best-known form in popular lore, and indeed it constitutes about three-fourths of plague cases. It is also the least dangerous form of plague, accounting today for virtually no deaths and in the past killing only half of its…
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types of plague

• In bubonic plague
  …two being septicemic plague and pneumonic plague. Bubonic plague is the most commonly occurring type of plague and is characterized by the appearance of buboes—swollen, tender lymph nodes, typically found in the armpits and groin. For information about the transmission, symptoms, treatment, and historical outbreaks of the disease, see plague.
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