Jul 7, 2022 · Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis, a zoonotic bacteria, usually found in small mammals and their fleas. It is transmitted between animals through fleas. Humans can be infected through: the inhalation of respiratory droplets/small particles from a patient with pneumonic plague.

Jul 27, 2021 · Plague is a zoonotic bacteria that can spread to humans and is caused by Yersinia pestis bacteria. It is transmitted to humans through the bite of infected fleas that live among rodents...

Aug 24, 2021 · A resurgence of Bubonic plague in Ituri province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is putting young lives at risk, the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, warned on Tuesday....

Clinical presentation suggestive of plague : sudden onset of fever, chills, headache, severe malaise, prostration, painful swelling of lymph nodes; or cough with blood-stained sputum, chest pain, difficulty in breathing

3 days ago · Plague is caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis, a zoonotic bacteria usually found in small mammals and their fleas. People infected with Y. pestis often develop symptoms after an incubation period of one to seven days. There are two main clinical forms of plague infection: bubonic and pneumonic.

May 10, 2018 · Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis, a zoonotic bacteria, usually found in small mammals and their fleas. There are two main clinical forms of plague...

Aug 24, 2021 · New research, supported by UNICEF, in three health zones of Ituri shows that children are especially at risk of contracting plague, which in recent months has been making a comeback for the first time in more than a decade.

Apr 8, 2025 · Ten days after a 7.7 magnitude quake levelled buildings and buckled bridges across central Myanmar, the latest death toll has passed 3,500 and is “likely to rise”, said Titon Mitra, UN Development Programme Regional Representative in the country, speaking from the devastated city of Mandalay. He said that the response has moved …

The plague outbreak in Madagascar “could spread and reach emergency levels” without early action, the United Nations warned today and said “resources are urgently required to scale-up prevention,...

Sep 25, 2024 · Plague is an infectious disease caused by Yersinia pestis bacteria, usually found in small mammals and their fleas. The disease is transmitted between animals via their fleas and, as it is a zoonotic bacterium, it can also transmit from animals to humans.