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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 ...
Most people don’t need to be concerned about the plague based on a recent death in Arizona. But take precautions if you live ...
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) ...
Pneumonic plague, a highly contagious and often fatal lung infection caused by Yersinia pestis, recently caused a death in ...
Pneumonic plague is caused by bacteria carried by species like rats and prairie dogs. Pneumonic and bubonic plague ...
Officials said the resident died from pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection. The risk to the public remains low.
A person in Flagstaff, Arizona, has died from the pneumonic plague, marking the first recorded death from the disease in the state’s Coconino County in nearly two decades. “Our hearts go out to the ...
Pennsylvania first detected CWD in 2012 in Adams County, and the disease has since spread to all south-central counties, ...