Most people don’t need to be concerned about the plague based on a recent death in Arizona. But take precautions if you live ...

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

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

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The disease is rarely found in humans, so much so that only seven people are diagnosed with the severe lung infection annually in the United States.

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

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

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

The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.

An Arizona resident has died from the plague as officials were probing whether a prairie dog die-off in the area was also ...