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

The diease is mostly found in rural areas of northern Arizona, western Nevada, northern New Mexico, southern Colorado, ...

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 recent pneumonic plague death in Northern Arizona, the first since 2007, has raised concerns about this rare but deadly ...

A northern Arizona resident died from the pneumonic plague, local health officials said. The person arrived at the Flagstaff Medical Center Emergency Department on Friday and died there the same day, ...

Arizona's Coconino County, near Flagstaff, has reported a pneumonic plague death, its first since 2007. The Arizona resident, ...

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

2 Cases of Plague Found in China, Sparking Fears of an Outbreak The pneumonic plague is "almost always fatal," and spreads quickly, as it did with the Black Death outbreak in the 14th century ...

These safety concerns have limited enthusiasm for the development of live-attenuated vaccines in the USA and Europe, where plague is uncommon and the risk of harm may outweigh the benefits of ...

Antibody-Mediated Defense Against Plague As noted above, the licensing of pneumonic plague vaccines will rely on efficacy data from animal studies and safety data from human trials. In addition ...

Another form of the illness, pneumonic plague, occurs when the bacteria infects the lungs. In very rare cases, pneumonic plague can spread from person to person through droplets in a cough.