Plague, once known as the ‘Black Death’ that nearly wiped out half of Europe's population, is now rare in humans and treatable with antibiotics. It is caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis ...

The Arizona Public Health Association is advising the public that there is no need to worry about the plague, despite one ...

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

A patient in Arizona has died from pneumonic plague, raising fears of the medieval 'Black Death' returning to the US.

A sign warning of bubonic plague is displayed at a parking lot near the Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge in Commerce ...

When you hear the word plague, many minds jump to the Bubonic plague from the 1300s, but Will Humble of the Arizona Public Health Association says that word has a different meaning today.

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

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 ...