Health officials issue warnings as bacteria and stormwater runoff contaminate beaches nationwide, closing popular swimming ...

The pneumonic plague, known more often as the black plague, claimed the life of a Northern Arizona resident, health officials ...

Animals such as rats can carry the bacterium that causes plague (Alamy/PA) ...

Officials in northern Arizona are detailing the steps that were taken after a person died from the Plague earlier in July.

ARIZONA — Health officials have reported the first plague death since 2007, according to CBS News and the AP. Plague is ...

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

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

A northern Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague. Health officials say it's the first recorded death in the area ...

An Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague, a rare but highly dangerous lung infection, Coconino County health ...

A PERSON has died from plague just 24 hours after they showed up at hospital with symptoms, health officials have said. The victim was rushed to Flagstaff Medical Center in Arizona, US, showing ...

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

The plague is likely to have come from rodents like prairie dogs, whose colonies are known to carry case after case of the disease ...