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

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

The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.

The first pneumonic plague death in Arizona's Coconino County in almost two decades highlights the rare but deadly ...

Septicemic plague occurs if bubonic plague is left untreated, or it can occur directly if the disease enters the bloodstream.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A resident of northern Arizona has died of pneumonic plague, health officials said Friday. Plague is rare ...

Pneumonic plague is both “the least common and most dangerous type of plague,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.

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.

An Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague, a rare but highly dangerous lung infection, Coconino County health ...

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

A person in rural Arizona died after falling ill with a rare case of pneumonic plague, health officials confirmed July 11.