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

A study of the genetic basis of plague immunity in prairie dogs has broad implications for conservation. From white-nose ...

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

Arizona health officials are concerned about a prairie dog die-off northeast of Flagstaff that could be the result of a ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A potential "die-off" of prairie dogs has been reported in northern Arizona, prompting public health ...

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

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

Prairie dog populations have declined rapidly this century, due in large part to sylvatic plague, regulated and unregulated poisoning by government agencies and private landowners, ...

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

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

Arizona health officials are concerned about a prairie dog die-off northeast of Flagstaff that could be the result of a ...