Most people don’t need to be concerned about the plague based on a recent death in Arizona. But take precautions if you live ...

Animals such as rats can carry the bacterium that causes plague (Alamy/PA) ...

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 has died from pneumonic plague, a rare but highly dangerous lung infection, Coconino County health ...

The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.

Amid a prairie dog die-off near Flagstaff, one person in Northern Arizona has died from the plague after being hospitalized ...

An Arizona resident died within 24 hours of showing plague symptoms, confirmed to be caused by Yersinia pestis, following a ...

The plague is likely to have come from rodents like prairie dogs, whose colonies are known to carry case after case of the disease ...

But the earliest known bubonic plague outbreak — the Plague of Justinian — took hold in the Mediterranean Basin and lasted from AD 541 to AD 544. Another plague outbreak emerged in China in ...

But the earliest known bubonic plague outbreak — the Plague of Justinian — took hold in the Mediterranean Basin and lasted from AD 541 to AD 544. Another plague outbreak emerged in China in ...

But the earliest known bubonic plague outbreak — the Plague of Justinian — took hold in the Mediterranean Basin and lasted from AD 541 to AD 544. Another plague outbreak emerged in China in ...

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — One of the bleakest periods in medieval Europe was the plague pandemic known as the Black Death, which killed at least 25 million people in just five years. But ...