FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A resident of northern Arizona has died from pneumonic plague, health officials said Friday. Plague ...

A northern Arizona resident has died from the pneumonic plague, health officials confirmed on Friday, the first such death in ...

A recent pneumonic plague death in Northern Arizona, the first since 2007, has raised concerns about this rare but deadly ...

It has since been confirmed that the patient’s death was caused by pneumonic plague, which is a severe lung infection caused ...

A sudden death caused by the pneumonic plague has caused a stir. Previously known to be the cause of bubonic plague, people ...

A resident of Northern Arizona's Coconino County succumbed to pneumonic plague, marking the first such death since 2007.

Pneumonic plague, a highly contagious and often fatal lung infection caused by Yersinia pestis, recently caused a death in ...

Plague is often associated with Medieval history and the centuries-old Black Death epidemic, but a recent death in northern Arizona is a troublesome reminder of the flea-borne disease’s lingering hold ...

An Arizona resident died after contracting pneumonic plague, a rare but highly dangerous lung infection. The person did not ...

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

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

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.