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

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

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

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

Arizona state officials confirmed a resident of Coconino County has died from pneumonic plague, the first recorded death from the severe infection since 2007, according to a news release from the ...

A patient in rural northern Arizona was diagnosed with plague—a bacterial disease caused by Yersinia pestis—after ...

A rare respiratory illness known as pneumonic plague killed one Arizona resident. Know signs and symptoms and treatments to ...

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

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.

An Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection caused by Yersinia pestis. The CDC warns that plague can be fatal if untreated.

The death of the Coconino County resident marks the first recorded pneumonic plague death in the county since 2007, officials with Coconino County Health and Human Services said in a statement. Start ...

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