A MAN started growing boils up his arm just hours after catching the bubonic plague from his pet cat. The 73-year-old from Oregon, US, had accidentally cut his finger with a kitchen knife in ...

The disease is rarely found in humans, so much so that only seven people are diagnosed with the severe lung infection annually in the United States.

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

The first case of cholera in Poland in six years has been reported in the city of Stargard. According to Ukrinform, this was ...

To help with these questions about the plague, CNN spoke with wellness expert Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and ...

The Los Angeles outbreak of pneumonic plague lasted from September through mid-November 1924, and in 1924-25, more than 500 people in Minnesota died from smallpox.Thirty years later, unlike previous A ...

A person in Arizona has died from the plague, local health officials reported on Friday. This marks the first such death in ...

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

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 arrived at Flagstaff Medical Center and died in the emergency room. It is the first known plague-related ...

An Arizona resident died of pneumonic plague, a serious lung infection that requires antibiotics. Here’s what you need to ...