A person in Arizona recently died of pneumonic plague—a rare and severe form of the disease. An expert explains how the ...

Coconino County Health and Human Services recently received a report of a prairie dog die-off on private land northeast of ...

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.

A sudden death caused by the pneumonic plague has caused a stir. Previously known to be the cause of bubonic plague, people ...

A resident of Northern Arizona recently died after being infected with the pneumonic plague, the first death in the US since 2007.

Arizona reports its first death from the pneumonic plague since 2007, with health officials emphasizing the disease's rarity ...

Two prairie dogs were found dead last month in Doney Park northeast of the city, prompting officials to test for plague in the area. After collecting fleas from the animals' burrows, testing at a ...

Pneumonic plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, remains a subject of intense scientific scrutiny given its historical impact and potential modern threat.

ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) - The prairie dogs at Red Bud Park are currently being treated for mange. The outbreak was discovered after a sick prairie dog, named Wilson, was found in a residential ...

Why did the ornithologist strap a taxidermy badger to a remote controlled car and drive it around the prairie? To interrogate the secret world of animal eavesdropping in the grasslands, of course ...

Prairie dogs and the big picture -- The life of prairie dogs. Interlude: taxonomy and prairie dog taxonomists -- The social behavior of prairie dogs. Interlude: social behavior-trapping prairie dogs - ...

The Ohio State University at Marion has long championed prairie conservation through the establishment the Larry R. Yoder Prairie Learning Laboratory.