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

A deadly case of pneumonic plague has claimed a life in Northern Arizona, with the victim dying at Flagstaff Medical Center ...

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

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 ...

Officials confirmed one person died of pneumonic plague just days after a prairie dog die-off believed to be related to ...

The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.

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 ...

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 ...

Officials clarified that the death is unrelated to a recent prairie dog die-off in the Townsend-Winona area northeast of Flagstaff.