A deadly case of pneumonic plague has claimed a life in Northern Arizona, with the victim dying at Flagstaff Medical Center ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pneumonic plague is a rare but life-threatening condition caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis. Y pestis is usually carried by rodents and can be transmitted to humans through a bite from an ...

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

Plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which can be transmitted via flea bites, the typical route for bubonic plague, or directly from human to human, called pneumonic plague. "Both ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a case study on Thursday that documents a dog in Colorado infecting humans with pneumonic plague in the United States. In June of 2014 ...