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plague pneumonia - a rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person; characterized by lung involvement with chill, bloody expectoration and high fever

pest, pestilence, pestis, plague - a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

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Four persons developed plague after exposure to the ill dog; one of the patients also had close contact with the index patient after he developed plague pneumonia, supporting possible human-to-human transmission.

Outbreak of human pneumonic plague with dog-to-human and possible human-to-human transmission--Colorado, June-July 2014

Chest x-rays may reveal infiltrates, hilar adenopathy, effusion, and nodular infiltrates with pleural effusion suggesting tularemia or plague pneumonia; 30% have minimal or absent pulmonary signs and generalized constitutional symptoms may predominate.

Another agent of bio-terrorism: tularemia

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