What Was the Black Plague?
5. Other Types
As mentioned, bubonic plague is one of 3 types, and the other two are septicemic plague, and pneumonic plague. Septicemic plague means that the patient’s blood stream has become infected with the bacterium. Symptoms of the disease include a fever, weakness, bleeding, pain in the abdomen, gangrene, and shock.
Pneumonic plague, which infects the lungs, is even more dangerous than the other two, but also the least common. It progresses very quickly and it may take only two days for the patient to experience shock and respiratory failure. Other potential symptoms include a cough, fever, headache, chest pain, and breathing difficulties.
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