section_path: 14th-century plague/Signs and symptoms/Septicemic plague
section_name: Septicemic plague
paragraph_text: Septicemic plague
  
  Septicemic plague is the least common of the three forms, with an untreated mortality rate near 100%. Symptoms are high fevers and purple skin patches (purpura due to disseminated intravascular coagulation). In cases of pneumonic and particularly septicemic plague, the progress of the disease is so rapid that there would often be no time for the development of the enlarged lymph nodes that were noted as buboes.