A sudden death caused by the pneumonic plague has caused a stir. Previously known to be the cause of bubonic plague, people ...

Coconino County Health and Human Services recently received a report of a prairie dog die-off on private land northeast of ...

Arizona reports its first death from the pneumonic plague since 2007, with health officials emphasizing the disease's rarity ...

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

Amid a prairie dog die-off near Flagstaff, one person in Northern Arizona has died from the plague after being hospitalized ...

Coconino County has confirmed its first human death from the plague in nearly two decades. Health officials say a Coconino ...

Prairie dogs are rodents, which are known carriers of fleas with the Black Death-causing Yersinia pestis bacterium. An autopsy of the human victim revealed they were infected with the same germ, ...

Officials confirmed one person died of pneumonic plague just days after a prairie dog die-off believed to be related to ...

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

Coconino County health officials say they’re investigating a reported prairie dog die-off northeast of Flagstaff, and that ...

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