Pneumonic plague is the most serious form of plague that is caused when bacteria spread to the lungs of a patient with ...

Arizona reports its first death from the pneumonic plague since 2007, with health officials emphasizing the disease's rarity ...

ARIZONA — Health officials have reported the first plague death since 2007, according to CBS News and the AP. Plague is ...

A resident of northern Arizona has died from pneumonic plague. Plague is rare to humans, with on average about seven cases reported annually in the U.S., most of them in the western states. The death ...

The diease is mostly found in rural areas of northern Arizona, western Nevada, northern New Mexico, southern Colorado, ...

A resident of Northern Arizona's Coconino County succumbed to pneumonic plague, marking the first such death since 2007.

A northern Arizona resident died from the pneumonic plague, local health officials said. The person arrived at the Flagstaff Medical Center Emergency Department on Friday and died there the same day, ...

The patient had arrived at Flagstaff Medical Center and died in the emergency room. It is the first known plague-related ...

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

A resident of Northern Arizona recently died after being infected with the pneumonic plague, the first death in the US since 2007.

Human-to-human transmission is exceedingly rare, with the last reported case in the U.S. in 1924, according to the National Institutes of Health.

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.