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

The exact details haven’t been released yet, but local health officials have confirmed it’s the first plague death in the ...

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Pneumonic plague is both “the least common and most dangerous type of plague,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.

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Plague infections and deaths are rare in humans - Coconino County reported the first recorded death from plague since 2007.

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.

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The death in Coconino County, which includes Flagstaff, was the first recorded death from pneumonic plague since 2007, local ...

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The ‘Black Death’ plague, once so deadly that it killed half of Europe, is now treatable with antibiotics.

The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.