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

A person died in Flagstaff of the rare illness related to the bubonic plague. Once called the “Black Death,” plague is now curable in all its forms if treated quickly.

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The daughter of a Goodyear fire captain who was rescued from a burning vehicle two months ago is now out of the hospital, beginning the road to recovery.

The person was recently treated in a Flagstaff emergency room and died the same day. It has since been confirmed that the death was caused by pneumonia plague. Micaela Marshall has the latest.

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When you hear the word plague, many minds jump to the Bubonic plague from the 1300s, but Will Humble of the Arizona Public Health Association says that word has a different meaning today.

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