Most people don’t need to be concerned about the plague based on a recent death in Arizona. But take precautions if you live ...

Pneumonic plague, a highly contagious and often fatal lung infection caused by Yersinia pestis, recently caused a death in ...

Pneumonic plague is the most serious form of plague that is caused when bacteria spread to the lungs of a patient with ...

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 ...

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

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

A PERSON has died from plague just 24 hours after they showed up at hospital with symptoms, health officials have said. The ...

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.

The symptoms and causes of the most common types of plagues after a north Arizona resident died within hours of attending a ...

Officials said the resident died from pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection. The risk to the public remains low.