” Is that the same type of plague as this possible pneumatic plague? “
The short answer to your question is ‘yes and no’... ;)
Both Bubonic Plague (which calex59 correctly says is perennial out here in the American Southwest) and Pneumonic Plague are both caused by the bacterium ‘yersina pestis’...
Bubonic (the most common variety) is contracted in humans from bites of fleas from infected critters (mostly rodents) - and has rarely, if ever, been reported as being capable of human-to-human transmission...
Pneumonic (much rarer) occurs when the bubonic infection spreads to the lungs of a victim, at which point it does become capable of direct human-to-human transmission through the familiar cough/sneeze vectors...
While calex59 is correct that both variants are treatable with common antibiotics, one of the nastier aspects of Pneumonic Plague is that it can be pretty far advanced - enough that it can be transmitted - before gross symptoms appear... This makes it a)more difficult to treat successfully, and b)a much more likely to cause epidemic...
(Which is why there’s a lot of interest in Pneumonic Plague as a bioweapon...)
Correct you are Uncle. I didn’t read carefully enough and thought the article was about Bubonic plague, not Pneumonic.