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The word "plague" is often used to refer to any major disease epidemic or pandemic, or even to other undesirable events, such ...
A person in Arizona recently died of pneumonic plague—a rare and severe form of the disease. An expert explains how the ...
Pneumonic plague is the most serious form of plague that is caused when bacteria spread to the lungs of a patient with ...
Death from pneumonic plague was confirmed in a resident of Coconino County, Arizona, on July 11, 2025, according to a press release from the county’s health and human services department.
A PERSON has died from plague just 24 hours after they showed up at hospital with symptoms, health officials have said. The ...
Scientists in Tel Aviv and IIBR have developed an mRNA vaccine. It combats the deadly Yersinia pestis bacterium. This ...
The ‘Black Death’ plague, once so deadly that it killed half of Europe, is now treatable with antibiotics.
An Arizona resident died of pneumonic plague, a serious lung infection that requires antibiotics. Here’s what you need to know.
Just 24 hours after being admitted to hospital with symptoms of the pneumonic plague - a patient in Arizona tragically passed ...
The patient had the pneumonic plague, the rarest and deadliest form of the disease. Human cases remain very uncommon in the ...
Animals such as rats can carry the bacterium that causes plague (Alamy/PA) ...