A hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship has revived fears of rodent-borne diseases. From the Black Death to modern outbreaks, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. scanning electron micrograph of yersinia pestis, rough blobs in a disordered cluster, colorized in blue. A person in Arizona has ...

Scientists discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague, marking the first case of the disease outside Eurasia. De Agostini via Getty Images Scientists have ...

(CNN) — A person died from pneumonic plague in Arizona last week, the first death from the disease in this region in nearly two decades. This death might bring to mind the bubonic plague, the form of ...

One person in Flagstaff died from pneumonic plague, the first recorded death in Coconino County since 2007. Health officials emphasize that plague is very rare and treatable with antibiotics, unlike ...

Plague is generally rare in humans, as an average of seven cases are reported annually in the United States. The person who most recently died had the pneumonic plague and lived in Coconino County, ...

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, ...