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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Two prairie dogs were found dead last month in Doney Park northeast of the city, prompting officials to test for plague in the area. After collecting fleas from the animals' burrows, testing at a ...

Pneumonic plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, remains a subject of intense scientific scrutiny given its historical impact and potential modern threat.

Plague has apparently now spread to eastern Fall River County where it has decimated prairie dog populations and made that area much less attractive for the reintroduction of endangered black ...