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 ...

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

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 pneumonic plague, a rare but highly dangerous lung infection, Coconino County health ...

A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive for centuries.

An Arizona resident died within 24 hours of showing plague symptoms, confirmed to be caused by Yersinia pestis, following a ...

An outbreak of bubonic plague from 1347 to 1352 in Europe famously killed about 30% to 50% of the continent’s population.

Health officials issue warnings as bacteria and stormwater runoff contaminate beaches nationwide, closing popular swimming locations before the July 4th holiday.

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

The plague is likely to have come from rodents like prairie dogs, whose colonies are known to carry case after case of the disease ...