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

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

A previous version of this story incorrectly stated when plague was first introduced to the U.S. Plague first occurred in the U.S. in 1900. A Northern Arizona patient died this week after ...

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

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

Arizona health officials have confirmed one of the rarest infections in the country: plague. A patient in rural northern Arizona was diagnosed with plague—a bacterial disease caused by Yersinia pestis ...

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

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

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

It has since been confirmed that the patient’s death was caused by pneumonic plague, which is a severe lung infection caused ...

A person in northern Arizona has died from a case of pneumonic plague, local health officials said. The unidentified patient, ...

Coconino County has confirmed its first human death from the plague in nearly two decades. Health officials say a Coconino ...