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

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

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

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

A Coconino County resident died of pneumonic plague at Flagstaff Medical Center, the first such death since 2007. Caused by ...

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

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

A person in northern Arizona has died from a case of pneumonic plague, local health officials said. The unidentified patient, ...

The team from Tel Aviv University developed a vaccine to combat the bacterium that causes the black plague, using the same system as with the COVID-19 vaccines.

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

Coconino County has confirmed its first human death from the plague in nearly two decades. Health officials say a Coconino ...

It has since been confirmed that the patient’s death was caused by pneumonic plague, which is a severe lung infection caused ...