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

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

The exact details haven’t been released yet, but local health officials have confirmed it’s the first plague death in the ...

The disease is rarely found in humans, so much so that only seven people are diagnosed with the severe lung infection annually in the United States.

An Arizona resident has died from the plague as officials were probing whether a prairie dog die-off in the area was also ...

The word "plague" is often used to refer to any major disease epidemic or pandemic, or even to other undesirable events, such ...

Officials confirmed one person died of pneumonic plague just days after a prairie dog die-off believed to be related to ...

Coconino County Health and Human Services recently received a report of a prairie dog die-off on private land northeast of ...

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

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

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

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.