What is "septicemic"

Usage examples of "septicemic".

Like the lung-borne form of the plague, the septicemic infection was nearly one hundred percent fatal.

Rarely, the bite from an infected flea will lead directly to septicemic plague, in which the bacteria enter the bloodstream, severely damaging organs and causing blood vessels to hemorrhage.

In the United States over the last fifty years, persons with bubonic or septicemic plague developed pneumonia in about 12 percent of the cases.

Bubonic and septicemic plague are spread only through bites from infected fleas, so people who develop this form of the disease are not contagious to others.

The existence of two carriers confused the trail, the more so because the flea could live and travel independently of the rat for as long as a month and, if infected by the particularly virulent septicemic form of the bacillus, could infect humans without reinfecting itself from the rat.

Then there's pneumonic plague, when the bacilli are localized in the lungs - and septicemic plague, when the blood is infected.