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

The disease is rarely found in humans, so much so that only seven people are diagnosed with the severe lung infection ...

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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The word "plague" is often used to refer to any major disease epidemic or pandemic, or even to other undesirable events, such ...

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

An Arizona resident died of pneumonic plague, a serious lung infection that requires antibiotics. Here’s what you need to know.

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.

Just 24 hours after being admitted to hospital with symptoms of the pneumonic plague - a patient in Arizona tragically passed ...

Animals such as rats can carry the bacterium that causes plague (Alamy/PA) ...