A person in Arizona has died from the plague, local health officials reported on Friday. This marks the first such death in ...

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 ...

One person is dead, according to officials with Northern Arizona Healthcare, on the same day they showed up at Flagstaff ...

An Arizona resident had succumbed to the Black Death, marking the county's first plague death since 2007. Coconino County ...

Trio of outbreaks Plague’s most common form is bubonic plague, which causes painful swelling in lymph nodes and spreads among people through bites from fleas hitchhiking on infected rats.

An outbreak of bubonic plague from 1347 to 1352 in Europe famously killed about 30% to 50% of the continent’s population.

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.

Trio of outbreaks Plague’s most common form is bubonic plague, which causes painful swelling in lymph nodes and spreads among people through bites from fleas hitchhiking on infected rats. An outbreak ...

A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive for centuries.