pneumonic plague
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pneumonic plague
First recorded in 1895–1900
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A resident of Arizona has died from pneumonic plague, health officials confirmed on Friday.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025
In modern times, there are about 1,000 to 3,000 cases of pneumonic plague each year.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
In 1910, when a contagious pneumonic plague was ravaging northeastern China, a physician there concluded that the disease traveled through the air.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 10, 2020
Last November, the country’s Center for Disease Control alerted the public to an outbreak of pneumonic plague in the sparsely populated Inner Mongolia, after only two cases emerged.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2020
In the early part of 1917, about 200,000 Chinese coolies, collected from the northern part of China, where the pneumonic plague has raged at intervals since 1910, were sent to France as laborers.
From Peking Dust by La Motte, Ellen Newbold
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