The patient had the pneumonic plague, the rarest and deadliest form of the disease. Human cases remain very uncommon in the ...

The Arizona Public Health Association is advising the public that there is no need to worry about the plague, despite one ...

Officials in northern Arizona are detailing the steps that were taken after a person died from the Plague earlier in July.

Officials said the resident died from pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection. The risk to the public remains low.

The first pneumonic plague death in Arizona's Coconino County in almost two decades highlights the rare but deadly ...

A northern Arizona resident has died from the pneumonic plague, health officials confirmed on Friday, the first such death in Coconino County in nearly 20 years.

Death from pneumonic plague was confirmed in a resident of Coconino County, Arizona, on July 11, 2025, according to a press release from the county’s health and human services department.

Pneumonic plague is caused by bacteria carried by species like rats and prairie dogs. Pneumonic and bubonic plague ...

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, ...

A Flagstaff patient died from pneumonic plague, officials confirmed. It’s the first recorded case in Coconino County in ...

An Arizona resident has died from the plague as officials were probing whether a prairie dog die-off in the area was also ...

A person has recently died of plague at Flagstaff Medical Center (FMC), according to Northern Arizona Healthcare.