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

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

The exact details haven’t been released yet, but local health officials have confirmed it’s the first plague death in 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. Septicemic plague causes bleeding into the organs. The name comes from ...

An Arizona resident died of pneumonic plague, a serious lung infection that requires antibiotics. Here’s what you need to ...

The CDC reports that about 7 human cases of pneumonic plague are reported each year nationwide, but this case is the first known US death since 2007.

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

Animals such as rats can carry the bacterium that causes plague (Alamy/PA) ...

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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.