The plague is likely to have come from rodents like prairie dogs, whose colonies are known to carry case after case of the disease ...

A resident of the southwestern U.S. state of Arizona has died from pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium, health officials confirmed on Friday, July 11, BBC ...

Plague is a bacterial infection known for killing tens of millions in 14th century Europe. Today, it’s easily treated with ...

The Arizona Public Health Association is advising the public that there is no need to worry about the plague, despite one ...

A person in northern Arizona died from bubonic (pneumonic) plague, marking Coconino County's first death from the disease since 2007.

The death in Coconino County, which includes Flagstaff, was the first recorded death from pneumonic plague since 2007, local officials said.

When you hear the word plague, many minds jump to the Bubonic plague from the 1300s, but Will Humble of the Arizona Public Health Association says that word has a different meaning today.

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A northern Arizona resident has died from the pneumonic plague, health officials confirmed on Friday, the first such death in ...

Northern Arizona health officials say a Coconino County resident has died from the pneumonic plague, marking the first recorded plague death in the county since 2007.