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A person in Arizona recently died of pneumonic plague—a rare and severe form of the disease. An expert explains how the ...
Most people don’t need to be concerned about the plague based on a recent death in Arizona. But take precautions if you live ...
Pneumonic plague is the most serious form of plague that is caused when bacteria spread to the lungs of a patient with ...
A resident of Northern Arizona's Coconino County succumbed to pneumonic plague, marking the first such death since 2007.
Septicemic plague occurs if bubonic plague is left untreated, or it can occur directly if the disease enters the bloodstream.
Pneumonic plague is caused by bacteria carried by species like rats and prairie dogs. Pneumonic and bubonic plague ...
A rare respiratory illness known as pneumonic plague killed one Arizona resident. Know signs and symptoms and treatments to ...
The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.
An Arizona resident died of pneumonic plague, a serious lung infection that requires antibiotics. Here’s what you need to ...
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.
The ‘Black Death’ plague, once so deadly that it killed half of Europe, is now treatable with antibiotics.