Pneumonic plague, a highly contagious and often fatal lung infection caused by Yersinia pestis, recently caused a death in ...

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

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

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

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

Arizona reports its first death from the pneumonic plague since 2007, with health officials emphasizing the disease's rarity ...

The pneumonic plague killed a US resident on Friday, marking the first fatality from the infection since 2007. The US ...

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

A PERSON has died from plague just 24 hours after they showed up at hospital with symptoms, health officials have said. The ...

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

The first pneumonic plague death in Arizona's Coconino County in almost two decades highlights the rare but deadly ...

The diagnosis was confirmed through rapid testing after the Coconino County resident was admitted to Flagstaff Medical Center. Pneumonic plague is the only form of the plague that can be transmitted ...