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

The first pneumonic plague death in Arizona's Coconino County in almost two decades highlights the rare but deadly ...

The Arizona Public Health Association is advising the public that there is no need to worry about the plague, despite one ...

A rare respiratory illness known as pneumonic plague killed one Arizona resident. Know signs and symptoms and treatments to ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A resident of northern Arizona has died of pneumonic plague, health officials said Friday. Plague is rare ...

The patient had arrived at Flagstaff Medical Center and died in the emergency room. It is the first known plague-related ...

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

Pneumonic plague is caused by bacteria carried by species like rats and prairie dogs. Pneumonic and bubonic plague ...

A northern Arizona resident died from the pneumonic plague, local health officials said. The person arrived at the Flagstaff Medical Center Emergency Department on Friday and died there the same day, ...

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 person died in Flagstaff of the rare illness related to the bubonic plague. Once called the “Black Death,” plague is now curable in all its forms if treated quickly.

A human has died of pneumonic plague in northern Arizona, Coconino County health officials said. The victim sought help at a Flagstaff hospital.