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

Pneumonic plague, a highly contagious and often fatal lung infection caused by Yersinia pestis, recently caused a death in ...

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

According to officials, the disease can be transmitted to humans from the bite of an infected flea or through contact with an ...

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

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

Human-to-human transmission is exceedingly rare, with the last reported case in the U.S. in 1924, according to the National Institutes of Health.

The patient had arrived at Flagstaff Medical Center and died in the emergency room. It is the first known plague-related ...

Screening of more than 12,000 Aspergillus fumigatus isolates collected from Dutch hospitals found 15% harbored triazole ...

A northern Arizona resident has died from the pneumonic plague, health officials confirmed on Friday, the first such death in Coconino County in nearly 20 years.

A resident of Northern Arizona's Coconino County succumbed to pneumonic plague, marking the first such death since 2007.

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