Prognosis
A patient with the Plague may develop many different side-effects. Meningitis, causing infection and brain swelling, septic shock causing a blood infection, the decaying of tissue and bleeding, and swelling around the heart are many of the effects that a patient can have. If the patient is treated, the death rate is fairly low with a 1-15% death rate. If the Plague is allowed to advance without treatment, it can turn into the Septicemic Plague with a 40% death rate, and even more advanced is the Pneumonic Plague which has an 100% death rate if not treated within twenty-four hours.
Treatment
Back in the 1300s when there was a major outbreak of the Black Plague, mostly everyone in infected areas, except about 10% of the area's population, acquired the Plague. Now with more modern medicine, we actually have treatments in case anyone acquires it again. The Plague should be treated as soon as diagnosed or it can result in death in as little as one week. There are two antibiotics that treat the Plague and those are Streptomycin and Tetracycline. These medicines inhibit the synthesis of the bacterial protein. Although these are treatments, its not a 100% guarantee that they will work. Beside of antibiotics, there are also vaccines, not commercially available, for travelers or people working with plague-infected areas all over the world as well, but the best cure is to prevent it before it happens.
A patient with the Plague may develop many different side-effects. Meningitis, causing infection and brain swelling, septic shock causing a blood infection, the decaying of tissue and bleeding, and swelling around the heart are many of the effects that a patient can have. If the patient is treated, the death rate is fairly low with a 1-15% death rate. If the Plague is allowed to advance without treatment, it can turn into the Septicemic Plague with a 40% death rate, and even more advanced is the Pneumonic Plague which has an 100% death rate if not treated within twenty-four hours.
Treatment
Back in the 1300s when there was a major outbreak of the Black Plague, mostly everyone in infected areas, except about 10% of the area's population, acquired the Plague. Now with more modern medicine, we actually have treatments in case anyone acquires it again. The Plague should be treated as soon as diagnosed or it can result in death in as little as one week. There are two antibiotics that treat the Plague and those are Streptomycin and Tetracycline. These medicines inhibit the synthesis of the bacterial protein. Although these are treatments, its not a 100% guarantee that they will work. Beside of antibiotics, there are also vaccines, not commercially available, for travelers or people working with plague-infected areas all over the world as well, but the best cure is to prevent it before it happens.