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

The word "plague" is often used to refer to any major disease epidemic or pandemic, or even to other undesirable events, such ...

The exact details haven’t been released yet, but local health officials have confirmed it’s the first plague death in the ...

Death from pneumonic plague was confirmed in a resident of Coconino County, Arizona, on July 11, 2025, according to a press release from the county’s health and human services department.

President Donald Trump was swept into office promising to Make America Healthy Again. Now his controversial Health Secretary, ...

An Arizona resident died of pneumonic plague, a serious lung infection that requires antibiotics. Here’s what you need to ...

A MAN started growing boils up his arm just hours after catching the bubonic plague from his pet cat. The 73-year-old from Oregon, US, had accidentally cut his finger with a kitchen knife in ...

Plague infections and deaths are rare in humans - Coconino County reported the first recorded death from plague since 2007.

Just 24 hours after being admitted to hospital with symptoms of the pneumonic plague - a patient in Arizona tragically passed ...

The patient had the pneumonic plague, the rarest and deadliest form of the disease. Human cases remain very uncommon in the ...

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