The word "plague" is often used to refer to any major disease epidemic or pandemic, or even to other undesirable events, such ...

An Arizona resident died of pneumonic plague, a serious lung infection that requires antibiotics. Here’s what you need to know.

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

Death from pneumonic plague was confirmed in a resident of Coconino County, Arizona, on July 11, 2025, according to a press release from the county’s health and human services department.

A mummy in Egypt has yielded a shocking discovery: the DNA of the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis—thousands of years before ...

A person in northern Arizona has died from a case of the plague, local health officials said. The individual, who was not identified, was treated at Flagstaff Medical Center Emergency Department and ...

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

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

A person has died from plague, also called the Black Death, less than a day after going to A&E with symptoms in the US.

The symptoms and causes of the most common types of plagues after a north Arizona resident died within hours of attending a ...

A patient who died at a Flagstaff, Arizona hospital last week was diagnosed with the bacteria that causes the plague, marking the first known plague-related death in Coconino County since 2007.