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Plague: Introduction

Plague: Plague is an infectious disease of animals and humans caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis. (Source: excerpt from CDC Plague Home Page: DVBID) ... more about Plague.

Plague: A rare but serious bacterial infection involving the bacterium Yersinia Pestis which can be carried by rodents and transmitted to humans by flea bites or through direct contact with an infected animal. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Plague is available below.

Symptoms of Plague

• Swollen lymph glands
• Tender lymph glands
• Lymph gland pain
• Bubonic plague symptoms:
  • Blister at flea bite site
• more symptoms...»

See full list of 32 symptoms of Plague

Treatments for Plague

• Emergency treatment
• Antibiotics
• Strict isolation of patients and body fluids
• Supportive care as necessary
  • Intravenous fluids
• more treatments...»

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Home Diagnostic Testing

Home medical testing related to Plague:

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  • Home Strep A Tests
• more...»

Wrongly Diagnosed with Plague?

• Misdiagnosis of Plague
• Failure to diagnose Plague
• Hidden causes of Plague (possibly wrongly diagnosed)
• Undiagnosed: Plague

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• Fearing death is near, need advice.

Plague: Deaths

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Alternative Treatments for Plague

Alternative treatments or home remedies that have been listed in various sources as possibly beneficial for Plague may include:

• Yersinia pestis nosode homeopathic prevention and treatment
• Baptisia homeopathic prevention and treatment
• Tarentula cubensis homeopathic prevention
• more treatments »

Types of Plague

• Bubonic plague
• Septicemic plague
• Pneumonic plague
• more types...»

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Diagnostic Tests for Plague

• Blood tests for Yersinia pestis bacteria
• Sputum tests for Yersinia pestis bacteria
• Lymph tests for Yersinia pestis bacteria
• more tests...»

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Plague: Complications

Review possible medical complications related to Plague:

• Death
• more complications...»

Causes of Plague

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More information about causes of Plague:

• Plague as a symptom

Disease Topics Related To Plague

Research the causes of these diseases that are similar to, or related to, Plague:

• Black death
• The great pestilence
• Bubonic plague
• Pneumonic plague
• Meningeal plague
• Septicemic plague
• Bubo
• more related diseases...»

Misdiagnosis and Plague

Antibiotics often causes diarrhea: The use of antibiotics are very likely to cause some level of diarrhea in patients. The reason is that antibiotics kill off not only "bad" bacteria, but can also kill the "good" bacteria in the gut....read more »

Sinusitis is overdiagnosed: There is a tendency to give a diagnosis of sinusitis, when the condition is really a harmless complication of another infection, such as a common cold....read more »

Whooping cough often undiagnosed: Although most children in the Western world have been immunized against whooping cough (also called "pertussis"), this protection wears off after about 15 years....read more »

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Plague: Research Doctors & Specialists

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Plague: Animations

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Prognosis for Plague

Prognosis for Plague: About 1 in 7 cases in the USA are fatal

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Research about Plague

Visit our research pages for current research about Plague treatments.

Clinical Trials for Plague

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Plague include:

• Treatment and Diagnosis of Plague - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006) - gentamicin,streptomycin
• Safety, Tolerability & Immunogenicity of the Recombinant Plague Vaccine rF1V - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• One Year Study to Evaluate Three Different Adjuvanted Doses of the Recombinant Plague Vaccine (rF1 and rV Antigens) - This study is no longer recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• more trials...»

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Prevention of Plague

Prevention information for Plague has been compiled from various data sources and may be inaccurate or incomplete. None of these methods guarantee prevention of Plague.

• Avoid flea bites
• Rat control measures
• Plague vaccine
• more preventions...»

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Statistics for Plague

• Medical statistics for Plague
• Prevalence and incidence statistics for Plague
• Death and Mortality statistics for Plague
• Society statistics for Plague

Plague: Broader Related Topics

• Bacterial diseases
• Flea-borne diseases
• Rodent-borne disease
• more types...»

Types of Plague

Plague Message Boards

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Article Excerpts about Plague

Plague is an infectious disease of animals and humans caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis. (Source: excerpt from CDC Plague Home Page: DVBID)

Definitions of Plague:

The etiologic agent of PLAGUE in man, rats, ground squirrels, and other rodents. - (Source - Diseases Database)

A serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected rat flea (especially bubonic plague) - (Source - WordNet 2.1)

Plague is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Plague, or a subtype of Plague, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Ophanet, a consortium of European partners, currently defines a condition rare when it affects 1 person per 2,000. They list Plague as a "rare disease".
Source - Orphanet

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