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

Septicemic plague occurs if bubonic plague is left untreated, or it can occur directly if the disease enters the bloodstream.

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

A PERSON has died from plague just 24 hours after they showed up at hospital with symptoms, health officials have said. The ...

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

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

Amid a prairie dog die-off near Flagstaff, one person in Northern Arizona has died from the plague after being hospitalized with severe symptoms.

Globally, between 1,000 and 2,000 cases of plague are reported to the World Health Organization each year, although only an average of seven annual cases of are reported in the US. See Also ...

Outbreaks in cities do still occur, however—including a 2007 outbreak among tree squirrels in Denver’s City Park. There are typically a dozen or so reports of plague in animals each year ...

The United States, too, has a history of discriminatory policy during epidemics, including the targeting of Asian-American communities during early 19th- and early 20th-century plague outbreaks in ...

In the largest DNA analysis of its kind, scientists have found evidence to suggest that historic plague pandemics were not caused by newly evolved strains of bacteria but ones that could have ...