The Arizona resident, who suffered a severe lung infection caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium, had no connection to a ...

Pneumonic plague is the most serious form of plague that is caused when bacteria spread to the lungs of a patient with bubonic or septicemic plague.

A patient in rural northern Arizona was diagnosed with plague—a bacterial disease caused by Yersinia pestis—after ...

The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.

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

It has since been confirmed that the patient’s death was caused by pneumonic plague, which is a severe lung infection caused ...

A human has died of pneumonic plague in northern Arizona, Coconino County health officials said. The victim sought help at a Flagstaff hospital.

A resident in Northern Arizona has died from the pneumonic plague, the first person to die of the lung infection in the ...

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

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

A person in northern Arizona has died from a case of pneumonic plague, local health officials said. The unidentified patient, ...

Coconino County has confirmed its first human death from the plague in nearly two decades. Health officials say a Coconino ...