Most people don’t need to be concerned about the plague based on a recent death in Arizona. But take precautions if you live ...

Animals such as rats can carry the bacterium that causes plague (Alamy/PA) ...

An Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague, a rare but highly dangerous lung infection, Coconino County health ...

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

Amid a prairie dog die-off near Flagstaff, one person in Northern Arizona has died from the plague after being hospitalized ...

An Arizona resident died within 24 hours of showing plague symptoms, confirmed to be caused by Yersinia pestis, following a ...

The plague is likely to have come from rodents like prairie dogs, whose colonies are known to carry case after case of the disease ...

Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, ... That was the case in the large outbreak in Madagascar in 2017, where there were 2,348 confirmed, ...

FILE - A bubonic plague warning sign is displayed at a parking lot near the Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019, in Commerce City, Colo. Officials in central Oregon ...

Strains of the Justinian Plague bacterium took 300 years to go extinct after outbreaks were first recorded, and one of the two lineages from the Black Death re-emerged in waves for 500 years ...

Another plague outbreak emerged in China in the 1850s and sparked a major epidemic in 1894. Scientists view modern plague cases as part of this third pandemic. For the new study, ...

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — One of the bleakest periods in medieval Europe was the plague pandemic known as the Black Death, which killed at least 25 million people in just five years. But ...