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To: Tax-chick

"Once a human is infected, a progressive illness generally results unless specific antibiotic therapy is given. Progression leads to blood infection and, finally, to lung infection. The infection of the lung is termed plague pneumonia, and it can be transmitted to others through the expulsion of droplets by coughing."

The high death rates were human to human.

Btw, the rat flea was the carrier, not the human flea.

http://www.nps.gov/public_health/inter/info/factsheets/fs_plague.htm


39 posted on 04/18/2006 5:23:09 PM PDT by TheLion
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To: TheLion

True, but the book I read said that the people were so dirty at that time that they often had rat fleas as well as human fleas. Also discussed the pneumonic transmission, air-borne.


55 posted on 04/18/2006 6:24:56 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Although You're invisible, I trust the Unseen.")
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