A person in Arizona recently died of pneumonic plague—a rare and severe form of the disease. An expert explains how the ...

Bubonic plague is typically spread by fleas living on animals such as rats, prairie dogs and marmots. If an infected flea ...

Just 24 hours after being admitted to hospital with symptoms of the pneumonic plague - a patient in Arizona tragically passed ...

Septicemic plague occurs if bubonic plague is left untreated, or it can occur directly if the disease enters the bloodstream.

Pneumonic plague is caused by bacteria carried by species like rats and prairie dogs. Pneumonic and bubonic plague ...

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

A person has died from plague, also called the Black Death, less than a day after going to A&E with symptoms in the US.

On average, around seven cases of plague are reported annually in the US, mostly originating from western states ...

The symptoms and causes of the most common types of plagues after a north Arizona resident died within hours of attending a medical facility.

Pneumonic plague is the most serious form of plague that is caused when bacteria spread to the lungs of a patient with bubonic or septicemic plague.

A patient who died at a Flagstaff, Arizona hospital last week was diagnosed with the bacteria that causes the plague, marking the first known plague-related death in Coconino County since 2007.

The first pneumonic plague death in Arizona's Coconino County in almost two decades highlights the rare but deadly ...