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

The death in Coconino County, which includes Flagstaff, was the first recorded death from pneumonic plague since 2007, local ...

The patient had arrived at Flagstaff Medical Center and died in the emergency room. It is the first known plague-related ...

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 ...

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

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

A rare respiratory illness known as pneumonic plague killed one Arizona resident. Know signs and symptoms and treatments to ...

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.

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 ...

A resident of Northern Arizona recently died after being infected with the pneumonic plague, the first death in the US since 2007.