See About archive blog posts. With China moving to control an outbreak of pneumonic plague, it’s worth noting that the disease doesn’t occur only in places for which Americans need a passport ...

Two people were reportedly diagnosed with the highly infectious, potentially fatal pneumonic plague in a hospital in Beijing, Chinese authorities revealed Tuesday. The announcement comes as the ...

The two people, from Inner Mongolia, were treated for pneumonic plague in Beijing's Chaoyang district, local health officials said Tuesday, according to Caixin and state-media Xinhua.

The pneumonic plague is "almost always fatal," and spreads quickly, as it did with the Black Death outbreak in the 14th century Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE, covering ...

An anteroposterior (AP) chest x-ray of a plague patient revealing bilateral infection, greater on the patient's left side, which was diagnosed as a case of pneumonic plague, caused by the ...

Near the crest of one of the steep hills dotted across ... Unusually, another strain of plague has been identified: the deadlier pneumonic plague, which can pass from person to person through ...

Y. pestis can cause three different forms of plague: bubonic, pneumonic and septicemic. Pneumonic plague infects the lungs, causing severe pneumonia. It’s the most serious form of the disease ...

DENVER (Reuters) – A Colorado man diagnosed with pneumonic plague, a rare form of the disease that is also the most life-threatening, is the state’s first confirmed human case of the illness ...

A “rare but serious case of pneumonic plague” infection was transmitted from sick pet cats to a Wyoming resident, officials said. Those are not the cats pictured. Jessica Hill AP A case of ...