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An Arizona Resident Died From the Plague. Here’s What to Know About the Rare DiseaseThe patient had the pneumonic plague, the rarest and deadliest form of the disease. Human cases remain very uncommon in the ...
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Pneumonic Plague Claims A Life After 18 Years; Know More About The 'Rare Infection'The pneumonic plague killed a US resident on Friday, marking the first fatality from the infection since 2007. The US ...
The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.
There are three types of plague -- bubonic, septicemic and pneumonic plague. With the pneumonic form of plague -- which means it affects the lungs -- there is a risk of direct transmission ...
A plague outbreak has infected more than 1,100 people in Madagascar and could spread further. The form of the disease that's spreading, pneumonic plague, is the deadliest.
A plague outbreak in Madagascar has reached 40 districts in the country, with the majority of cases having the pneumonic form of the disease, which spreads person-to-person.
Plague is an endemic disease in Madagascar. Each year there is a seasonal upsurge between September and April, especially in the Central Highlands, which stand at an elevation of more than 800m.
Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death.
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