A PERSON has died from plague just 24 hours after they showed up at hospital with symptoms, health officials have said. The ...

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

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 ...

A bubonic plague death has been confirmed in the US for the first time in eight years. The victim, of Coconino County, showed ...

The death in Coconino County, which includes Flagstaff, was the first recorded death from pneumonic plague since 2007, local ...

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Health officials have confirmed that for the first time since 2007, there has been a death from pneumonic plague (bubonic plague in the lungs) in Coconino County. The northern Arizona patient was ...

Corrections & clarifications: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated when plague was first introduced to the U.S. Plague first occurred in the U.S. in 1900. A Northern Arizona patient ...

An Arizona resident has died from the bubonic plague as health officials warned that a prairie dog die-off in the region could signal an outbreak of the lethal illness.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- 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 in ...