21. Untreated pneumonic plague has a mortality rate from 90-100 %. 22. Under the make-believe scenario, the C-47 airplane released a fine spray containing pneumonic plague . 23. 1994-A pneumonic plague epidemic breaks out in Surat, an industrial city in western India. 24. Pneumonic plague descends on India on the heels of a terrible heat wave and flood.25. People who have had contact with anyone infected by pneumonic plague are given prophylactic antibiotics. 26. But other doctors say a negative sputum test does not necessarily rule out pneumonic plague . 27. The pneumonic plague scenario offers an indication of how slowly a biological attack might unfold. 28. She said this made it less likely that any of the patients had pneumonic plague . 29. Some had septicemic and a few had pneumonic plague . 30. The symptoms are those of pneumonia and pneumonic plague .