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

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

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

The ‘Black Death’ plague, once so deadly that it killed half of Europe, is now treatable with antibiotics.

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

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.

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A person has died of the pneumonic plague at the Flagstaff Medical Center in Arizona, according to Northern Arizona Healthcare, the organization that runs the hospital. The patient arrived at the ...

A Coconino County resident died of pneumonic plague at Flagstaff Medical Center, the first such death since 2007. Caused by ...

Plague, once known as the ‘Black Death’ that nearly wiped out half of Europe's population, is now rare in humans and ...

The death in Coconino County, which includes Flagstaff, was the first recorded death from pneumonic plague since 2007, local officials said.