10812 - PAINT STRIPPER REVISION DATE:MAY 2003 SPECIAL FIRE FIGHTING PROCEDURES: Containers close to fire should be removed or cooled with water. Use water to keep fire exposed containers cool and disperse vapours. UNUSUAL FIRE & EXPLOSION HAZARDS: Aerosol cans may explode in fires. 6.
Several antibiotics are effective for treatment including streptomycin, gentamicin, or doxycycline. Without treatment it results in the death of 30% to 90% of those infected. Death if it occurs is typically within ten days. With treatment the risk of death is around 10%.
Bubonic plague is fatal (though there is now a cure) and leads to an infection of the lymph nodes, which become swollen (bubo is Latin for bump). Here's what actually happens. The bacteria grow inside the flea, causing conditions which block the insect's stomach and induce extreme hunger. The flea starts to feed on a host, and in this way the disease spreads. Boccaccio, Plutarch and Chaucer all mention the Black Death in their literary works. The disease made short life spans even shorter.