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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

There have been a total of 4 cases of the plague in Colorado so far. A prairie dog peers out from its burrow hole in this undated file photo. Getty Images July 19, 2014— -- A plague cluster ...

Prairie dogs living in a colony near Broomfield’s Great Western Reservoir Open Space are the first 2017 victims of plague in Colorado. ... And then there’s pneumonic plague, ...

Coconino County has confirmed its first human death from the plague in nearly two decades. Health officials say a Coconino ...

Plague-infected fleas affecting prairie dog colonies have forced closures in parts of Colorado, including wildlife areas and a suburb of Denver, as authorities say the fleas could spread the ...

"For pneumonic plague a more likely scenario would be you have a cat [play] with prairie dogs and infected fleas get on the cat," Runfola said. "The cat gets sick and sneezes and coughs on its owner." ...