Public health officials in Arizona have confirmed that a human in the state has died from pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection caused by the same bacterium that caused the Black Death.

The Arizona Public Health Association is advising the public that there is no need to worry about the plague, despite one ...

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

A resident of Arizona has died from pneumonic plague, health officials confirmed on Friday. This was the first recorded death ...

A sign warning of bubonic plague is displayed at a parking lot near the Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge in Commerce ...

When you hear the word plague, many minds jump to the Bubonic plague from the 1300s, but Will Humble of the Arizona Public Health Association says that word has a different meaning today.

John Paxton with the Coconino County Sheriff's Office provides an update on the White Sage Fire that's already burned 8,700 ...

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

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

A northern Arizona resident has died from the pneumonic plague, health officials confirmed on Friday, the first such death in ...