A MAN started growing boils up his arm just hours after catching the bubonic plague from his pet cat. The 73-year-old from ...

Just 24 hours after being admitted to hospital with symptoms of the pneumonic plague - a patient in Arizona tragically passed ...

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

Pneumonic plague is both “the least common and most dangerous type of plague,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.

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

The pneumonic plague killed a US resident on Friday, marking the first fatality from the infection since 2007. The US ...

The death is the first recorded case of fatal pneumonic plague in the county since 2007, when a resident became infected after contact with a dead animal.

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

Arizona reports its first death from the pneumonic plague since 2007, with health officials emphasizing the disease's rarity ...

CHINA has sealed off a town after two people died and 10 are believed to have contracted pneumonic plague. ... Two die as plague outbreak closes town. GILLIAN WONG. Tue 4 Aug 2009 at 01:00.

The first pneumonic plague death in Arizona's Coconino County in almost two decades highlights the rare but deadly ...