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 ...

Pneumonic plague is both “the least common and most dangerous type of plague,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.

The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.

Health officials in northern Arizona confirmed Friday that a Coconino County resident died from the pneumonic plague, marking ...

Officials confirmed one person died of pneumonic plague just days after a prairie dog die-off believed to be related to ...

An Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague, a rare but highly dangerous lung infection, Coconino County health ...

A human has died of pneumonic plague in northern Arizona, Coconino County health officials said. The victim sought help at a Flagstaff hospital.

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

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

It has since been confirmed that the patient’s death was caused by pneumonic plague, which is a severe lung infection caused ...