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

“The risk of transmission to and explosive outbreaks amongst humans, as happened in the Middle Ages and up to the antibiotic era, is very unlikely at present as the bacterium causing plague ...

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

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

A deadly case of pneumonic plague has claimed a life in Northern Arizona, with the victim dying at Flagstaff Medical Center ...

Although bubonic plague has been eradicated in many parts of the world, outbreaks still kill about 4,000 people each year and antibiotic-resistant strains have emerged.

"The risk of transmission to and explosive outbreaks amongst humans, as happened in the Middle Ages and up to the antibiotic era, is very unlikely at present as the bacterium causing plague ...

The patient had the pneumonic plague, the rarest and deadliest form of the disease. Human cases remain very uncommon in the ...

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

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

Chinese health officials say the risk of an outbreak of pneumonic plague is minimal after two new cases were confirmed this week in Beijing, the official China Daily said on Thursday.