Plague (cont.)
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John P. Cunha, DO, FACOEP
John P. Cunha, DO, FACOEPJohn P. Cunha, DO, is a U.S. board-certified Emergency Medicine Physician. Dr. Cunha's educational background includes a BS in Biology from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and a DO from the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences in Kansas City, MO. He completed residency training in Emergency Medicine at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, New Jersey. Medical Editor:
Charles Patrick Davis, MD, PhD
Charles Patrick Davis, MD, PhDDr. Charles "Pat" Davis, MD, PhD, is a board certified Emergency Medicine doctor who currently practices as a consultant and staff member for hospitals. He has a PhD in Microbiology (UT at Austin), and the MD (Univ. Texas Medical Branch, Galveston). He is a Clinical Professor (retired) in the Division of Emergency Medicine, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, and has been the Chief of Emergency Medicine at UT Medical Branch and at UTHSCSA with over 250 publications. IN THIS ARTICLEPlague Pictures
Media type: Photo Media file 2: A bubo. A tender, swollen lymph node in the groin area of a plague victim. The bubo forms generally in the region of the body where the infected flea has bitten the victim. Courtesy of Jack Poland, PhD, CDC, Fort Collins, Colo. 
Media type: Photo Media file 3: Rock squirrel coughing the blood-streaked sputum of pneumonic plague. Courtesy of Ken Gage, PhD, CDC, Fort Collins, Colo. 
Media type: Photo Media file 4: The "black death." A victim recovering from bubonic plague. At one time this person's entire body was black. Reprinted from McGovern TW, Friedlander AM. Plague. In: Sidell FR, Takafuji ET, Franz DR, eds. Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare. Chapter 23 in: Zajtchuk R, Bellamy RF, eds. Textbook of Military, Medicine. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Army, Office of the Surgeon General, and Borden Institute; 1997: 493. 
Media type: Photo Media file 5: The same plague victim as previous photo. The toes have gangrene and will probably need to be amputated. 
Media type: Photo Media file 6: Bioterrorist Agents. Signs and symptoms to watch for. Chart courtesy of North Carolina Statewide Program for Infection Control and Epidemiology (SPICE), copyright University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 
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