A 20-year old woman and 32-year old male, both Holmes County residents, were arrested after a traffic stop for suspected drug possession.

The Arizona Public Health Association is advising the public that there is no need to worry about the plague, despite one person in Flagstaff dying from the disease.

As per the hospital, the patient in Arizona failed to recover even after "appropriate initial management" and “attempts to provide life-saving resuscitation”.

The patient was recently treated at an emergency department in Flagstaff and died the same day, Northern Arizona Healthcare said.