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A person in the US has died from the plague. Here’s what you should know
Animals such as rats can carry the bacterium that causes plague (Alamy/PA) ...
What Arizona's Pneumonic Plague death means for public health
An Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague, a rare but highly dangerous lung infection, Coconino County health ...
The crisis brewing in Sydney - and it has alarming public health consequences
According to a spokesperson for the City of Sydney, the greatest health and safety risks posed by rats are disease ...
An Arizona resident has just died of the plague. What to know about this disease
Most people don’t need to be concerned about the plague based on a recent death in Arizona. But take precautions if you live ...
Arizona Resident Dies From Plague, Officials Say
The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.
Patient dies from the ‘Black Death’ plague less than 24 hours after symptoms first emerged
A PERSON has died from plague just 24 hours after they showed up at hospital with symptoms, health officials have said. The ...
Outbreak of ‘brain-swelling’ Nipah reaches five after victim’s son tests positive for the virus dubbed ‘next pandemic’
THE son of a man who died from a brain-swelling Nipah virus that inspired the Hollywood blockbuster Contagion has allegedly ...
Plague makes a chilling return as patient drops dead within 24 hours
Just 24 hours after being admitted to hospital with symptoms of the pneumonic plague - a patient in Arizona tragically passed away from the terrifying illness, which was last seen in the UK in 1918 ...
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Canadian hospitals seeing exponential increase in superbug incidence
Researcher say the increase in carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales infection and colonization is being driven by ...
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Patient dies of plague in extremely rare case after health officials issued chilling warning
The plague is likely to have come from rodents like prairie dogs, whose colonies are known to carry case after case of the disease ...