An Arizona resident has died from the bubonic plague as health officials warned that a prairie dog die-off in the region could signal an outbreak of the lethal illness. The person died at Flagstaff ...

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

A case of bubonic plague has been reported in Oregon. Although the Black Death devastated Europe in the 1300s, the plague does exist around the world today. Cases of the plague also appear in the ...

Mortality from bubonic plague today is between 1% and 10%, whereas septicemic plague may have mortality as high as 50% — and if untreated, it's over 90%. Fleas can spread other diseases too ...

A patient died of bubonic plague just hours after checking into the Flagstaff Medical Center in northern Arizona.

The bubonic plague, which is caused by a bacterial infection, was chillingly known as “Black Death” when it wiped out some 50 million people across Africa, Asia and Europe in the Middle Ages.

Bubonic is the most common form, accounting for more than 80% of cases in the U.S. Pneumonic plague is the most serious. Many animals can get the plague, including rock squirrels, wood rats ...

The bubonic plague is caused by Yersinia pestis, a bacterium that was likely first introduced in North America around 1900 from rats on ships coming from South Asia, according to Timothy Brewer, M ...

Bubonic plague has a case-fatality ratio of 30% to 60% when left untreated, while pneumonic plague, when left untreated, is always fatal, according to WHO.

A person in Pueblo County, Colorado, about 100 miles south of Denver, has been infected with bubonic plague, local health officials said Monday. Last week, state and local officials identified the ...

The plague — which in the mid-14th century was also known as the Black Death — devastated swaths of Europe, killing millions in under a decade. One of the puzzles surrounding this ancient ...