Suspected: Any person meeting the clinical criteria with at least one epidemiological criteria.īubonic plague: Fever AND sudden onset of painful lymphadenitis Isolation of Yersinia pestis in cultures from buboes, blood, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) or sputum OR detecting specific Yersinia pestis antigen using different techniques. Laboratory criteria for diagnosis: Confirmation of plague requires laboratory testing. Other actors such as healthcare workers or investigators studying the cause of a disease, on the other hand, can use more specific case definitions that may require laboratory confirmation.Ĭlinical description: The clinical presentations and the prognostic are closely linked to the form of plague: disease characterized by rapid onset of fever, chills, headache, severe malaise, prostration, WITH extreme painful swelling of lymph nodes ( bubonic form) OR cough with blood-stained sputum, chest pain, difficult breathing ( pneumonic form) both forms can progress to a septicaemic form with toxaemia: sepsis without evident buboes rarely occurs. NB: Consider that during community-based surveillance, volunteers should use broad (simplified) case definitions (referred to as community case definitions) to recognize most or all possible cases, provide relevant risk communication and appropriate actions and encourage them to seek care. However, during an outbreak case definitions may be adapted to the local context and the Red Cross Red Crescent should use those agreed/established by national health authorities. The following are standard case definitions to allow national health authorities to interpret data in an international context.
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