A person in the US has died from the plague. Here’s what you should know - The death is a reminder that this historic disease, though rare nowadays, is not just a disease of the past ...

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

Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death.

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 ...

The ‘Black Death’ plague, once so deadly that it killed half of Europe, is now treatable with antibiotics.

A person in northern Arizona died from bubonic (pneumonic) plague, marking Coconino County's first death from the disease ...

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

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

The three major plague pandemics are among the deadliest outbreaks in human history. The first pandemic, the Justinian Plague (which occurred roughly between A.D. 542 and 750), slashed the ...

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