How to Use pneumonic in a Sentence

pneumonic

adjective

• Two-thirds of the cases are the pneumonic form of the disease, which can spread from person to person.
  — Angela Helm, The Root, 25 Oct. 2017
• The pneumonic plague is more deadly than the bubonic plague, which is rarely spread from person to person.
  — Michael Brice-Saddler, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2019
• Thousands were killed by pneumonic plague, the most severe strand.
  — Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 23 Nov. 2019
• The findings change how researchers think about pneumonic plague.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 Oct. 2015
• People all over the island are spooked by the deadly and fast-spreading pneumonic version of the disease.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2017
• By late last month, cases of pneumonic plague were popping up in 20 districts across the country, including the far north and the west coast.
  — Robyn Dixon, latimes.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• The majority of cases, 67%, were the pneumonic form of the disease, which can spread from person to person.
  — Meera Senthilingam, CNN, 25 Oct. 2017
• But about two-thirds of cases have been attributed to the more severe pneumonic plague, which has killed 21 people.
  — Casey Quackenbush, Time, 6 Oct. 2017
• The first suspect was China, where pneumonic plague had erupted on the Manchurian border in 1910.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2017
• Most of the people infected in the current outbreak in Madagascar have the pneumonic form.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2017
• Untreated bubonic or septicemic plague can develop in the pneumonic plague, which spreads to the lungs.
  — Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2020
• The pneumonic form, the most infectious, can spread from person to person through airborne droplets from coughing and breathing.
  — Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu, Quartz, 26 Aug. 2021
• Media: WochIt Media There are two types of plagues affecting the area now, bubonic plague and pneumonic plague.
  — Heather Leighton, Houston Chronicle, 26 Oct. 2017
• There are three different types of plague: b ubonic, septicemic and pneumonic.
  — Alexandra Sifferlin, Time, 28 June 2017
• But far more dangerous and deadly is the pneumonic form, which infects the lungs and which can be spread person to person directly, rather than via flea bites.
  — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2017
• In the medieval world both septicemic and pneumonic plague had a 100 percent mortality rate.
  — National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2020
• This case comes after two people were diagnosed with pneumonic plague in Xilingol last week.
  — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2019
• Cases of the pneumonic plague appeared in major rail termini -- Tianjin, Beijing and along the Beijing to Wuhan railway.
  — Paul French, CNN, 18 Apr. 2020
• Two people are being treated for the pneumonic plague in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia.
  — Tim Darnell, ajc, 15 Nov. 2019
• The epidemic remains active in 12 districts, and among the total cases reported, 61% are said to be the pneumonic plague, according to the UN office.
  — Victoria Larned, CNN, 3 Nov. 2017
• There are three main types of plague in humans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: bubonic plague, pneumonic plague and septicemic plague.
  — Liam Stack, New York Times, 27 June 2017
• If bacteria also infect the bloodstream (called septicemic plague) or the lungs (called pneumonic plague), organ failure and death can occur if it’s not treated right away.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health.com, 13 June 2018
• If untreated, bubonic and pneumonic plague can progress to septicemic plague, infecting the bloodstream.
  — Jenny Howard, National Geographic, 20 Aug. 2019
• Pneumonic plague causes a rapid and severe form of pneumonia that can lead to respiratory failure and shock.
  — Liam Stack, New York Times, 27 June 2017
• Due to concerns about pneumonic plague, which can cause severe lung infections, camping had been canceled and on-site parking had been severely curtailed.
  — The Know, The Denver Post, 2 Sep. 2019
• That would only happen through close proximity to someone suffering from the variation of the disease known as pneumonic plague.
  — Anna Gunther, CBS News, 13 June 2018
• In China, health officials have reported a rare outbreak of pneumonic plague after two cases were confirmed this week in Beijing.
  — NBC News, 14 Nov. 2019
• If this happens out in regular ecosystems, people reasoned that maybe bacteria-killing viruses would also work in a pneumonic lung.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 July 2018
• But the disease can lead to quick death if the bacteria infect the respiratory system or bloodstream in rarer conditions known as pneumonic and septicemic plague.
  — Gerry Shih, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2020
• But international spread is not a big threat, because pneumonic plague shows up quickly after someone is exposed to the bacteria.
  — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2017

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