Symptoms
The most apparent symptom of pneumonic plague is coughing, often with hemoptysis (coughing up blood). 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.
The pneumonia progresses for two to four days and may cause respiratory failure and shock. Patients will die without early treatment, some within 36 hours.
Initial pneumonic plague symptoms can often include:
- Fever
- Weakness
- Headache
- Nausea
Rapidly developing pneumonia with:
- Shortness of breath
- Chest pain
- Cough
- Bloody or watery sputum (saliva and discharge from respiratory passages).
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