Plague — Uganda
Plague is a life-threatening zoonotic disease caused by _Yersinia pestis_. Zoonotic foci exist on several continents; however, resource-poor areas in sub-Saharan Africa account for most human cases (1). The pathogenesis of plague involves facultative intracellular infection of host macrophages, followed by fulminant extracellular growth and bacteremia (2). In the absence of effective antimicrobial drug treatment, bubonic plague is fatal in about 50 percent of cases and pneumonic plague in
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