YMMV / NCISS 02 E 22

• Artistic License – Biology / Medicine: There are three strains of plague caused by the Yersinia pestis bacteria: bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic. Ducky describes the strain that has infected Tony, pneumonic, as the worst of the three, but in Real Life most physicians believe that septicemic plague (which infects the bloodstream) is by far the worst.