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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 ...
Pneumonic plague is both “the least common and most dangerous type of plague,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.
The death in Coconino County, which includes Flagstaff, was the first recorded death from pneumonic plague since 2007, local ...
An Arizona resident died of pneumonic plague, a serious lung infection that requires antibiotics. Here’s what you need to ...
Officials in northern Arizona are detailing the steps that were taken after a person died from the Plague earlier in July.
The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.
An Arizona resident has died from the plague as officials were probing whether a prairie dog die-off in the area was also ...
The patient had the pneumonic plague, the rarest and deadliest form of the disease. Human cases remain very uncommon in the ...
Pneumonic plague is caused by bacteria carried by species like rats and prairie dogs. Pneumonic and bubonic plague ...
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 resident of northern Arizona has died from pneumonic plague, health officials said Friday. Plague is rare to humans, with ...