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

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

Officials in northern Arizona are detailing the steps that were taken after a person died from the Plague earlier in July.

Officials in northern Arizona say they have taken steps after a deadly case of the plague was reported. FOX 10's Steve Nielsen reports.

Cases of plague have been reported in the Chinese city of Yumen, where a man has died of the disease. Control measures taken by the authorities include travel restrictions in and out of the city ...

Plague symptoms in cats and dogs include fever, lethargy and loss of appetite, according to the New Mexico Department of Health. There may also be a swelling in the lymph node under the jaw.

If not treated, pneumonic plague is invariably fatal, while bubonic plague is fatal in about 30 percent to 60 percent of untreated cases, the World Health Organization says. Antibiotics can cure ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 496 cases of plague were documented in the U.S. between 1970 and 2020, with almost all occurring in the West or Southwest. More than half of the ...

Plague is caused by a bacterium called Yersinia pestis. Most people know it as the microbe behind the “ Black Death ,” which wiped out at least a third of Europe’s population in the 14th ...

PARIS - The bacteria that caused the plague evolved to become less deadly over time, allowing it to continue infecting people in three separate pandemics over more than a thousand years, new ...