Animals such as rats can carry the bacterium that causes plague (Alamy/PA) ...

New bacterial mRNA vaccine technology shows promise in fighting plague, and could help address the global threat of antibiotic resistance through rapid vaccine development.

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

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

One person is dead, according to officials with Northern Arizona Healthcare, on the same day they showed up at Flagstaff ...

Coconino County health officials withheld the person's name and gender, but confirmed their cause of death to be pneumonic ...