1 The fatality rate of pneumonic plague is a staggering 95 percent.

2 The fatality rate of pneumonic plague a staggering 95 percent.

3 Pneumonic plague is caused by the same bacterium that occurs in bubonic plague.

4 Primary pneumonic plague results from inhalation of aerosolized infective droplets and can be transmitted from human to human without involvement of fleas or animals.

5 According to clinical manifestations, epidemiological investigation and laboratory test results, the experts identified as pneumonic plague.

6 In 2009 China ended a quarantine blockade around a remote northwestern town hit by pneumonic plague.

7 However, the low case fatality ratio is unusual for pneumonic plague which suggests that the number of suspected cases may be an overestimation.