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.

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The word "plague" is often used to refer to any major disease epidemic or pandemic, or even to other undesirable events, such ...

Just 24 hours after being admitted to hospital with symptoms of the pneumonic plague - a patient in Arizona tragically passed ...

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

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

New bacterial mRNA vaccine technology shows promise in fighting plague, and could help address the global threat of ...

A person in northern Arizona has died from a case of the plague, local health officials said. The individual, who was not identified, was treated at Flagstaff Medical Center Emergency Department and ...

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

Arizona reports its first death from the pneumonic plague since 2007, with health officials emphasizing the disease's rarity ...

A PERSON has died from plague just 24 hours after they showed up at hospital with symptoms, health officials have said. The ...