treatment:
When the bubonic plague is suspected, the person is often hospitalised and placed in isolation and treatment is started even before lab tests come back. Treatment for bubonic plague usually involves antibiotics and supportive care. Supportive care means treating symptoms and complications that occur as a result of the disease. It's also important for people who have been in close contact with an infected person to be identified and evaluated for possible treatment.
Specific antibiotics used as bubonic plague remedies include:
· Streptomycin
· Gentamicin
For bacteria to survive and an infection to spread, it has to reproduce. Streptomycin and Gentamicin works by interfering with the synthesis of essential proteins within the target bacteria.
Other antibiotics, including tetracycline’s (protein synthesis inhibitors) and chloramphenicol (protein synthesis inhibitors but also peptidyl transferase [the primary enzymatic function of the ribosome, which forms peptide bonds between adjacent amino acids using tRNAs during the translation process of protein biosynthesis), can also be effective. For someone with severe bubonic plague symptoms, these antibiotics are given through an intravenous (IV) line. Mild cases can be treated with antibiotics taken by mouth.
Unfortunately vaccinations for the bubonic plague have not been discovered as of yet. Animals such as mice have successfully been treated for the bubonic plague but have failed to do so for humans. Sadly, research for a vaccination is very slow as the bubonic plague is not common in developed countries as well as the fact that experimenting could lead to more harm than good. Also experimenting on humans is unethical in most cases due to some having to take placebo's to ensure that the experiment can run smoothly which will ultimately lead to their death.
Generally though, the best way to cure the patient is to prevent it in the first place. However, if a person contracts the disease then early treatment can lead to a cure rate of 85%. if left untreated, the success rate decreases to 10%-50%.
Other antibiotics, including tetracycline’s (protein synthesis inhibitors) and chloramphenicol (protein synthesis inhibitors but also peptidyl transferase [the primary enzymatic function of the ribosome, which forms peptide bonds between adjacent amino acids using tRNAs during the translation process of protein biosynthesis), can also be effective. For someone with severe bubonic plague symptoms, these antibiotics are given through an intravenous (IV) line. Mild cases can be treated with antibiotics taken by mouth.
Unfortunately vaccinations for the bubonic plague have not been discovered as of yet. Animals such as mice have successfully been treated for the bubonic plague but have failed to do so for humans. Sadly, research for a vaccination is very slow as the bubonic plague is not common in developed countries as well as the fact that experimenting could lead to more harm than good. Also experimenting on humans is unethical in most cases due to some having to take placebo's to ensure that the experiment can run smoothly which will ultimately lead to their death.
Generally though, the best way to cure the patient is to prevent it in the first place. However, if a person contracts the disease then early treatment can lead to a cure rate of 85%. if left untreated, the success rate decreases to 10%-50%.