Plague is often associated with Medieval history and the centuries-old Black Death epidemic, but a recent death in northern Arizona is a troublesome reminder of the flea-borne disease’s lingering hold ...

Animals such as rats can carry the bacterium that causes plague (Alamy/PA) ...

Septicemic plague occurs if bubonic plague is left untreated, or it can occur directly if the disease enters the bloodstream.

Pneumonic plague is caused by bacteria carried by species like rats and prairie dogs. Pneumonic and bubonic plague ...

A sudden death caused by the pneumonic plague has caused a stir. Previously known to be the cause of bubonic plague, people ...

A PERSON has died from plague just 24 hours after they showed up at hospital with symptoms, health officials have said. The victim was rushed to Flagstaff Medical Center in Arizona, US, showing ...

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An Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague, a rare but highly dangerous lung infection, Coconino County health officials confirmed on Friday. This incident marks the first death from the ...

A human has died of pneumonic plague in northern Arizona, Coconino County health officials said. The victim sought help at a Flagstaff hospital.

Amid a prairie dog die-off near Flagstaff, one person in Northern Arizona has died from the plague after being hospitalized ...