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

A person in northern Arizona died from bubonic (pneumonic) plague, marking Coconino County's first death from the disease ...

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

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

Pneumonic plague is caused by bacteria carried by species like rats and prairie dogs. Pneumonic and bubonic plague ...

A person in the US has died from the plague. Here’s what you should know - The death is a reminder that this historic disease, though rare nowadays, is not just a disease of the past ...

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

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

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

Bubonic plague has a case-fatality ratio of 30% to 60% when left untreated, while pneumonic plague, when left untreated, is always fatal, according to WHO.

Israeli researchers create the world’s first 100 effective mRNA vaccine against Bubonic Plague paving the way for more ...