Plague Pneumonia

Plague pneumonia is highly contagious infection, caused by inhaling bacilli expelled by coughing Yersin plague patients with this form. Pulmonary infection with clinically from chills, high fever and paroxysmal cough with bloody sputum expectoration. Occur isolated or confluent bronchopneumonia, usually in the lung lobes simultaneously. With cough bacillus Yersin issued. Death is usually the third or fourth day, when the patient is not treated, with signs of septicemia. Plague pneumonia is a form of pulmonary plague, both caused by the same bacteria, which in turn is transmitted to humans by fleas from rats.

treatment 
Before the discovery of antibiotics, especially in the Middle Ages, this used to be a very deadly disease. As an infectious disease caused by bacteria, antibiotics will make a difference.