What Happens When You Have a Suspect Pneumatic Plague Epidemic?

WHO has done an amazing job at responding to this outbreak. Out of those 7,000 contacts, only 9 of them actually ended up becoming suspected cases. So for pneumatic plague, that's actually a fairly unusually low fatality rate. The one thing about the plague that's nice is that prophylactic antibiotics can help in reducing the chances that you end up showing symptoms of plague.