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 ...

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

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 ...

An Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague, a rare but highly dangerous lung infection, Coconino County health ...

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

According to officials, the disease can be transmitted to humans from the bite of an infected flea or through contact with an ...

There are three types of plague – bubonic, septicemic and pneumonic plague. With the pneumonic form of plague – which means it affects the lungs – there is a risk of direct transmission from ...

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

Health officials in northern Arizona confirmed Friday that a Coconino County resident died from the pneumonic plague, marking ...

The same treatment is used for the two most common types of plague. Bubonic plague has a case-fatality ratio of 30% to 60% when left untreated, while pneumonic plague, when left untreated, is ...