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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 ...
US state rocked by sudden death from medieval disease... as officials warn more to come
An Arizona resident had succumbed to the Black Death, marking the county's first plague death since 2007.  Coconino County ...
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Arizona Resident Dies Of Bubonic Plague Only 24 Hours After Showing Symptoms, All About The Rare Case
An Arizona resident died within 24 hours of showing plague symptoms, confirmed to be caused by Yersinia pestis, following a ...
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 ...
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.
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An Arizona Resident Died From the Plague. Here’s What to Know About the Rare Disease
The patient had the pneumonic plague, the rarest and deadliest form of the disease. Human cases remain very uncommon in the ...
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1 person dies of the plague in northern Arizona
One person is dead, according to officials with Northern Arizona Healthcare, on the same day they showed up at Flagstaff ...
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 ...
Northern Arizona resident dies from plague
A resident of northern Arizona has died from pneumonic plague, health officials said Friday. Plague is rare to humans, with on average about seven cases reported annually ...
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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 ...