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

Officials confirmed one person died of pneumonic plague just days after a prairie dog die-off believed to be related to plague.

Bubonic plague — the kind contracted by the Oregon resident — happens when the plague bacteria gets into the lymph nodes. It can cause fever, headache, weakness and painful, swollen lymph nodes.

A person in northern Arizona has died from a case of the plague, local health officials said. The individual, who was not identified, was treated at Flagstaff Medical Center Emergency Department and ...

Bubonic plague causes painfully swollen lymph nodes that are most commonly found in the groin, armpit and neck, called buboes. It will often advance and turn into the other two forms of plague if ...

Bubonic plague smear demonstrating the presence of Yersinia pestis bacteria, 1965. Bipolar staining of a plague smear prepared from lymph aspirated from an adenopathic lymph node, or bubo, of a ...

Bubonic plague — the kind contracted by the Oregon resident — happens when the plague bacteria get into the lymph nodes. It can cause fever, headache, weakness and painful, swollen lymph nodes.

Bubonic Plague Symptoms Include Swollen Lymph Nodes Called Buboes During the 14th century, the bubonic plague, known as the Black Death, killed more than one-third of Europeans, or 25 million people.