Pneumonic
in example sentence
He leads basically a one-man campaign to stop an epidemic of
pneumonic
plague in New Orleans, struggling to convince sluggish politicians and complacent policemen that there is a problem.
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During the autopsy, the family man Lieutenant Commander Dr. Clinton Reed (Richard Widmark) of the U.S. Public Health Service finds that the dead man had
pneumonic
plague caused by rats and he needs to find who had any type of contact with the man within forty-eight hours to avoid an epidemic.
A murdered illegal immigrant, fished out of the bay, is found to be infected with
pneumonic
plague, a deadly air-borne mutation of bubonic plague, which is transmitted from human-to-human and, untreated, has a mortality rate that approaches 100%.
Pneumonic
plague is loose in the streets of New Orleans, and it is up to a military doctor (Widmark) and a city detective (Douglas) to apprehend the main carrier (Palance).
A neat 'race against time' premise - A murdered John Doe is found to have
pneumonic
plague, so while the health authority and NOPD battle everybody and each other trying to find his waterfront contacts, the murderers think the heat is because the victim's infected cousin is holding out on them.
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