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

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

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

The disease is rarely found in humans, so much so that only seven people are diagnosed with the severe lung infection annually in the United States.

The exact details haven’t been released yet, but local health officials have confirmed it’s the first plague death in the ...

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

Pneumonic plague is both “the least common and most dangerous type of plague,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.

A Coconino County resident died of a rare case of pneumonic plague earlier this month. Dave Wagner, director of Northern ...

The death in Coconino County, which includes Flagstaff, was the first recorded death from pneumonic plague since 2007, local ...

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

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 ...