The patient had the pneumonic plague, the rarest and deadliest form of the disease. Human cases remain very uncommon in the ...

A previous version of this story incorrectly stated when plague was first introduced to the U.S. Plague first occurred in the U.S. in 1900. A Northern Arizona patient died this week after ...

Arizona's Coconino County, near Flagstaff, has reported a pneumonic plague death, its first since 2007. The Arizona resident, ...

The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.

Officials confirmed one person died of pneumonic plague just days after a prairie dog die-off believed to be related to ...

A Coconino County resident died of pneumonic plague at Flagstaff Medical Center, the first such death since 2007. Caused by ...

A person in northern Arizona has died from a case of pneumonic plague, local health officials said. The unidentified patient, ...

An Arizona resident has died from the plague as officials were probing whether a prairie dog die-off in the area was also ...

Coconino County has confirmed its first human death from the plague in nearly two decades. Health officials say a Coconino ...

It has since been confirmed that the patient’s death was caused by pneumonic plague, which is a severe lung infection caused ...

The team from Tel Aviv University developed a vaccine to combat the bacterium that causes the black plague, using the same system as with the COVID-19 vaccines.

Officials clarified that the death is unrelated to a recent prairie dog die-off in the Townsend-Winona area northeast of Flagstaff.