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

An Arizona resident died of pneumonic plague, a serious lung infection that requires antibiotics. Here’s what you need to ...

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

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

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 ...

Officials said the resident died from pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection. The risk to the public remains low.

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

A person has died from plague, also called the Black Death, less than a day after going to A&E with symptoms in the US.

On average, around seven cases of plague are reported annually in the US, mostly originating from western states ...