A pet owner has caught a rare case of the bubonic plague, health officials in central Oregon say, and it's believed they may have caught it from their cat. The Deschutes County Health Services ...

A person has died from the plague in Northern Arizona, health officials confirmed Thursday. The victim was rushed to Flagstaff Medical Center, showing severe symptoms, and died the same day. An ...

An Arizona resident has died from the bubonic plague as health officials warned that a prairie dog die-off in the region could signal an outbreak of the lethal illness. The person died at Flagstaff ...

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 the ...

Oral ciprofloxacin alone was as effective as a regimen combined with an injectable antibiotic for bubonic plague, a randomized trial showed. Among 222 patients with confirmed or probable infection in ...

Officials in central Oregon this week reported a case of bubonic plague in a resident who likely got the disease from a sick pet cat. The infected resident, the cat, and the resident's close contacts ...

An oral monotherapy regimen could simplify treatment for plague in rural areas where it is most common. In a randomized trial, treatment failure occurred in 9% of those who received oral ciprofloxacin ...