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Pneumonic plague   /numˈɑnɪk pleɪg/   Listen
Pneumonic plague

noun
1.
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.  Synonyms: plague pneumonia, pulmonic plague.





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"Pneumonic plague" Quotes from Famous Books



... to present in this preliminary note a consideration of the similarity of the present epidemic to the epidemic of pneumonic plague which broke out in Harbin, China, in October, 1910, and spread rapidly and continuously throughout Northern China at that time; and to suggest that this epidemic may be the same disease modified by racial and topographical differences. The origin of this epidemic was suggested ...
— Peking Dust • Ellen N. La Motte


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