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

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

According to a spokesperson for the City of Sydney, the greatest health and safety risks posed by rats are disease ...

Most people don’t need to be concerned about the plague based on a recent death in Arizona. But take precautions if you live ...

The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.

Just 24 hours after being admitted to hospital with symptoms of the pneumonic plague - a patient in Arizona tragically passed away from the terrifying illness, which was last seen in the UK in 1918 ...

New bacterial mRNA vaccine technology shows promise in fighting plague, and could help address the global threat of ...

Researcher say the increase in carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales infection and colonization is being driven by ...

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

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