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 ...

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

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

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

Arizona state officials confirmed a resident of Coconino County has died from pneumonic plague, the first recorded death from the severe infection since 2007, according to a news release from the ...

A patient who died at a Flagstaff, Arizona hospital last week was diagnosed with the bacteria that causes the plague, marking the first known plague-related death in Coconino County since 2007.

Arizona's Coconino County, near Flagstaff, has reported a pneumonic plague death, its first since 2007. The Arizona resident, ...

A northern Arizona resident has died from the pneumonic plague, health officials confirmed on Friday, the first such death in Coconino County in nearly 20 years.

Pennsylvania first detected CWD in 2012 in Adams County, and the disease has since spread to all south-central counties, ...

Scientists in Tel Aviv and IIBR have developed an mRNA vaccine. It combats the deadly Yersinia pestis bacterium. This ...