Looking more closely at how the plague, and that

A view of the plague, which killed two pneumonic in China:

Pneumonic plague is the fighting and less common form of the disease. The patients, 24 hours after infection.

Plague is a disease of animals, circulating, particularly in small animals such as rats and mice, but the bacteria can infect humans.

Since 2001, the World Health Organization reports about six plague, but some may not, as so often in remote areas.

Between 1998 and 2008 nearly 24,000 cases were reported, of which almost 2,000 deaths.

Plague can be treated effectively with antibiotics, but not if it can kill up to 60% of the population is infected.

People are infected when bitten by plague, the fleas, if they come into contact with infected surfaces or inhaler, if the bacteria.

People infected with the virus fever, usually experience flu-like symptoms such as fever, chills, muscle aches, vomiting and nausea after an incubation period of 3-7 days.

Pneumonic disease may directly between people, because the air by bacteria and can be inhaled by those in close contact with infected patients.

With the rule of origin, quarantine and isolation.

The most common is the plague, bubonic plague, also known as "Black Death", has swept across Europe, which has killed millions of people in 14 st century.

The disease has never been removed and continues to cause young people in Africa, Russia, America and Asia.

The causes of the rule of a few thousand cases per year, mostly in people in close contact with rodents, as the hunters. More than 98% of the world's are in Africa.