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

A person in Arizona has died from the plague, local health officials reported on Friday. This marks the first such death in ...

A person in northern Arizona died from bubonic (pneumonic) plague, marking Coconino County's first death from the disease ...

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

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

The symptoms and causes of the most common types of plagues after a north Arizona resident died within hours of attending a medical facility.

Untreated bubonic plague can turn into the more serious pneumonic plague, which causes rapidly developing pneumonia after bacteria spread to the lungs.Is there a vaccine for the plague?There is a ...

(CNN) -- Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death.