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Animals such as rats can carry the bacterium that causes plague (Alamy/PA) ...
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An Arizona Resident Died From the Plague. Here’s What to Know About the Rare DiseaseThe patient had the pneumonic plague, the rarest and deadliest form of the disease. Human cases remain very uncommon in the ...
Septicemic plague occurs if bubonic plague is left untreated, or it can occur directly if the disease enters the bloodstream.
The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.
A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive for centuries.
Amid a prairie dog die-off near Flagstaff, one person in Northern Arizona has died from the plague after being hospitalized with severe symptoms.
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Arizona Resident Dies Of Bubonic Plague Only 24 Hours After Showing Symptoms, All About The Rare CaseAn Arizona resident died within 24 hours of showing plague symptoms, confirmed to be caused by Yersinia pestis, following a ...
Alterations to a single gene in the plague bacterium's genome have shed light on a method the germ has used to survive and spread through the ages.
Another plague outbreak emerged in China in the 1850s and sparked a major epidemic in 1894. Scientists view modern plague cases as part of this third pandemic.
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