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It represented the first time that the plague had emerged in Southern California since plague outbreaks had previously surfaced in San Francisco and Oakland. The suspected reason for this outbreak was a rat epizootic where squirrels that were found to be plague infected were secondarily infected by rats. Due to the evidence of infected ...
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With pneumonic plague, the first signs of illness are fever, headache, weakness and rapidly developing pneumonia with shortness of breath, chest pain, cough and sometimes bloody or watery sputum. [6] The pneumonia progresses for two to four days and may cause respiratory failure and shock. Patients will die without early treatment, some within ...
3,400 (first wave; 900, second wave; 2,500) [156] 1857 Lisbon yellow fever epidemic 1857 Lisbon, Portugal Yellow fever: 6,000 [133] 1857 Victoria smallpox epidemic
Edwin Klebs was the first to observe bacteria in the airways of persons having died of pneumonia in 1875. [153] Initial work identifying the two common bacterial causes, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Klebsiella pneumoniae , was performed by Carl Friedländer [ 154 ] and Albert Fraenkel [ 155 ] in 1882 and 1884, respectively.
Died in Modena, Italy of pneumonia resulting from pancreatic cancer. Afonso Pena: 6th President of Brazil and 4th Vice President of Brazil: 1909-06-14 Died at 61 in the Catete Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was the first President of Brazil to die in office. George Peppard: American actor 1994-05-08
The decision comes after bird flu virus was found in samples of raw milk from a California farm, ... “Since the first … detection in livestock, USDA has collaborated with our federal, state ...
It was discovered that the pneumococcus's capsule made it resistant to phagocytosis, and in the 1920s it was shown that an antibody specific for capsular polysaccharide aided the killing of S. pneumoniae. In 1936, a pneumococcal capsular polysaccharide vaccine was used to abort an epidemic of pneumococcal pneumonia.