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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The pneumonic plague killed a US resident on Friday, marking the first fatality from the infection since 2007. The US ...

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

Health officials in Arizona have confirmed the death of a resident from the pneumonic plague - but they've not linked the ...

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

The diagnosis was confirmed through rapid testing after the Coconino County resident was admitted to Flagstaff Medical Center. Pneumonic plague is the only form of the plague that can be transmitted ...