In a rare, off-season occurrence, a man in Oregon contracted plague from his infected cat, researchers reported.

The Arizona case in July 2025 marks the first plague-related death in the region in nearly two decades.

Pneumonic Plague: The plague becomes “pneumonic” when infected droplets are inhaled. It presents as fever, weakness, cough ...

Rachel Morales, a Valley paramedic, said she went camping in Flagstaff at the Hart Prairie Loop trail with her family for a ...

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 ...

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

The disease is rarely found in humans, so much so that only seven people are diagnosed with the severe lung infection annually in the United States.

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

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

To help with these questions about the plague, CNN spoke with wellness expert Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and ...

The Los Angeles outbreak of pneumonic plague lasted from September through mid-November 1924, and in 1924-25, more than 500 people in Minnesota died from smallpox.Thirty years later, unlike previous A ...

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