Re: CHINA: QINGHAI, PNEUMONIC PLAGUE (from ProMedMail.org, edited): 12 cases (with three deaths, one in critical condition, 218 in hospital)
That Promed posting has been bugging me for the past few months, even before this outbreak. No other source has indicated a longer incubation period for plague than about 3-4 days, but that moderator says up to 14 days.
It is of note that he is considering an outbreak of a different pathogen that he believes has an incubation period of 2-4 weeks and is trying to use the incubation period of plague to argue that the other disease is not plague. Maybe he exaggerated to prove a point...
And again, mention that the dog ate the marmot. If the dog ate the marmot, it likely got pneumonic plague itself. The man didn't need to be bitten by the dog's fleas - he was exposed to the dog's cough.
That Promed posting has been bugging me for the past few months, even before this outbreak. No other source has indicated a longer incubation period for plague than about 3-4 days, but that moderator says up to 14 days.
It is of note that he is considering an outbreak of a different pathogen that he believes has an incubation period of 2-4 weeks and is trying to use the incubation period of plague to argue that the other disease is not plague. Maybe he exaggerated to prove a point...
And again, mention that the dog ate the marmot. If the dog ate the marmot, it likely got pneumonic plague itself. The man didn't need to be bitten by the dog's fleas - he was exposed to the dog's cough.
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