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

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

A Coconino County resident died of a rare case of pneumonic plague earlier this month. Dave Wagner, director of Northern ...

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

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) ...

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

Officials in northern Arizona are detailing the steps that were taken after a person died from the Plague earlier in July.

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

The patient had the pneumonic plague, the rarest and deadliest form of the disease. Human cases remain very uncommon in the ...