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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 ...
The Arizona Public Health Association is advising the public that there is no need to worry about the plague, despite one ...
Officials said the resident died from pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection. The risk to the public remains low.
The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.
Pneumonic plague is caused by bacteria carried by species like rats and prairie dogs. Pneumonic and bubonic plague ...
The death in Coconino County, which includes Flagstaff, was the first recorded death from pneumonic plague since 2007, local officials said.
Officials in northern Arizona are detailing the steps that were taken after a person died from the Plague earlier in July.
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A resident of northern Arizona has died of pneumonic plague, health officials said Friday. Plague is rare ...
A northern Arizona resident died from the pneumonic plague, local health officials said. The person arrived at the Flagstaff Medical Center Emergency Department on Friday and died there the same day, ...
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 the plague as officials were probing whether a prairie dog die-off in the area was also ...
A patient died of bubonic plague just hours after checking into the Flagstaff Medical Center in northern Arizona.