Most people don’t need to be concerned about the plague based on a recent death in Arizona. But take precautions if you live ...

Plague infections and deaths are rare in humans - Coconino County reported the first recorded death from plague since 2007.

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

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

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

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

The first pneumonic plague death in Arizona's Coconino County in almost two decades highlights the rare but deadly ...

Officials said the resident died from pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection. The risk to the public remains low.

A Coconino County resident died of a rare case of pneumonic plague earlier this month. Dave Wagner, director of Northern ...

An Arizona resident has died from the plague as officials were probing whether a prairie dog die-off in the area was also ...