Septicemic plague occurs if bubonic plague is left untreated, or it can occur directly if the disease enters the bloodstream.

Bubonic plague is typically spread by fleas living on animals such as rats, prairie dogs and marmots. If an infected flea ...

A PERSON has died from plague just 24 hours after they showed up at hospital with symptoms, health officials have said. The victim was rushed to Flagstaff Medical Center in Arizona, US, showing ...

Officials said the resident died from pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection. The risk to the public remains low.

A person has died of the pneumonic plague at the Flagstaff Medical Center in Arizona, according to Northern Arizona Healthcare, the organization that runs the hospital. The patient arrived at the ...

Officials confirmed one person died of pneumonic plague just days after a prairie dog die-off believed to be related to ...

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

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

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

The patient, an Arizona citizen, died of pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection, Coconino County health officials said in ...

A person in rural Arizona died after falling ill with a rare case of pneumonic plague, health officials confirmed July 11.

A person in northern Arizona died from bubonic (pneumonic) plague, marking Coconino County's first death from the disease since 2007.