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Infectious Disease
Exam 2
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Biology
Undergraduate 3
03/25/2009
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List the three transmission stages of Yersina pestis
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Bubonic, pneumonic, septicemic
Term
Septicemic plague is transmitted:
 Definition
Blood to blood
Term
Bubonic plague is transmitted:
 Definition
By rat flea bite
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Pneumonic plague is transmitted:
 Definition
Person to person (coughing, sneezing)
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Who practice medicine during the bubonic plague?
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Monks, clerics, licenced physicians, and barber-surgeons
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Type of medicine practiced during the time of the plague
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Hippocratic and Galenism
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