To help with these questions about the plague, CNN spoke with wellness expert Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and ...

A person in Arizona has died from the plague, local health officials reported on Friday. This marks the first such death in ...

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

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.

Septicemic plague occurs if bubonic plague is left untreated, or it can occur directly if the disease enters the bloodstream.

Officials in northern Arizona are detailing the steps that were taken after a person died from the Plague earlier in July.

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

The patient had the pneumonic plague, the rarest and deadliest form of the disease. Human cases remain very uncommon in the ...

The symptoms and causes of the most common types of plagues after a north Arizona resident died within hours of attending a ...

Arizona reports its first death from the pneumonic plague since 2007, with health officials emphasizing the disease's rarity ...

Pneumonic plague is the most serious form of plague that is caused when bacteria spread to the lungs of a patient with bubonic or septicemic plague.