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 ...

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

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

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

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.

Plague infections and deaths are rare in humans - Coconino County reported the first recorded death from plague since 2007.

Scientists in Tel Aviv and IIBR have developed an mRNA vaccine. It combats the deadly Yersinia pestis bacterium. This ...

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

To help with these questions about the plague, CNN spoke with wellness expert Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and ...