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MONDAY, July 14, 2025 (HealthDay News) — An Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague, a rare but serious illness, ...
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A resident of northern Arizona has died of pneumonic plague, health officials said Friday. Plague is rare ...
A person died in Flagstaff of the rare illness related to the bubonic plague. Once called the “Black Death,” plague is now ...
Pneumonic plague, a highly contagious and often fatal lung infection caused by Yersinia pestis, recently caused a death in ...
A resident of Northern Arizona's Coconino County succumbed to pneumonic plague, marking the first such death since 2007.
Plague is often associated with Medieval history and the centuries-old Black Death epidemic, but a recent death in northern Arizona is a troublesome reminder of the flea-borne disease’s lingering hold ...
The ‘Black Death’ plague, once so deadly that it killed half of Europe, is now treatable with antibiotics.
Pneumonic plague is the most serious form of plague that is caused when bacteria spread to the lungs of a patient with ...
Pneumonic plague is both “the least common and most dangerous type of plague,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.
Septicemic plague occurs if bubonic plague is left untreated, or it can occur directly if the disease enters the bloodstream.
An Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague, a rare but highly dangerous lung infection, Coconino County health ...
A rare respiratory illness known as pneumonic plague killed one Arizona resident. Know signs and symptoms and treatments to ...