What does PN stand for?

Pneumonic

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Samples in periodicals archive:

A marmot was at the root of a pneumonic plague outbreak in northwest China that has claimed three lives, the World Health Organisation said Tuesday.

Marmot at source of China plague: WHO

A marmot was at the root of a pneumonic plague outbreak in northwest China that has claimed three lives, the World Health Organisation said Tuesday.

Marmot at source of China plague: WHO

A blockade around a remote northwest Chinese town where deadly pneumonic plague killed three people and sickened nine was lifted after no new infections were reported, an official said Sunday.

China lifts blockade around plague-stricken town

8/6/2009 4:26:21 AM Residents of a remote farming town in western China have been barred from leaving after becoming infected with what officials described as the world's most deadly pneumonic plague.

China seals off plague town

Perhaps we should forget about doom and gloom forecasts of global warming, swine flu and the rest (remember the threat of bird flu that never happened) and seriously consider that an outbreak of pneumonic plague has just been reported in China and ponder the possible consequences to all of us.

Distracted from the real nightmares

No wonder the Chinese authorities are taking typically heavy-handed measures to control an outbreak of the pneumonic form of the disease in Qinghai Province.

FORGET SWINE FLU, THIS IS REALLY SCARY; life lines

3 Kyodo Two people are reported to have died from highly infectious pneumonic plague in a Tibetan town in China's northwestern Qinghai Province, prompting authorities to seal off the town of 10,000, state media reported Monday.

2 die of plague in northwest China

THOUSANDS of people have been placed under quarantine in a town in north-west China after a man died of pneumonic plague and 11others were confirmed infected with the deadly lung infection, health authorities said.

Thousands in quarantine as man dies of plague in China