| 11. | Pneumonic plague is the deadliest and most easily communicable form of the disease.
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| 12. | But it did happen with smallpox, and with pneumonic plague in the 1300s.
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| 13. | In extremely rare cases, bubonic plague can transform into pneumonic plague, a contagious form.
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| 14. | Although most people died of bubonic plague before the pneumonic plague could kill them.
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| 15. | Soviet scientists had assigned a so-called contagion index of nearly one to pneumonic plague.
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| 16. | Methods for diagnosing botulism, viral hemorrhagic fever, pneumonic plague and smallpox are similarly described.
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| 17. | Generally, those in contact with a pneumonic plague victim are also treated with antibiotics.
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| 18. | The danger of pneumonic plague exists with each bubonic case.
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| 19. | An even deadlier form, pneumonic plague, develops when a person inhales Y . pestis.
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| 20. | The pneumonic plague bacteria then showed up in blood tests.
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