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

A person in Arizona recently died of pneumonic plague—a rare and severe form of the disease. An expert explains how the ...

The diease is mostly found in rural areas of northern Arizona, western Nevada, northern New Mexico, southern Colorado, ...

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

Pneumonic plague is caused by bacteria carried by species like rats and prairie dogs. Pneumonic and bubonic plague ...

Pneumonic plague is the most serious form of plague that is caused when bacteria spread to the lungs of a patient with bubonic or septicemic plague.

A recent pneumonic plague death in Northern Arizona, the first since 2007, has raised concerns about this rare but deadly ...

Arizona's Coconino County, near Flagstaff, has reported a pneumonic plague death, its first since 2007. The Arizona resident, ...

The first pneumonic plague death in Arizona's Coconino County in almost two decades highlights the rare but deadly respiratory disease transmitted mainly by infected fleas.

Israeli researchers create the world’s first 100 effective mRNA vaccine against Bubonic Plague paving the way for more ...

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

People can also get plague through touching infected bodily fluids. Health experts recommend taking extra care when handling ...