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

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

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

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 health officials say they’re investigating a reported prairie dog die-off northeast of Flagstaff, and that ...

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.

Symptoms of plague in humans include fever, chills, and swollen lymph nodes. Prairie dogs are dying in northern Arizona, and officials are concerned the cause could be the plague.

Prairie dogs are dying in northern Arizona, and officials are concerned the cause could be the plague. Coconino County Health and Human Services recently received a report of a prairie dog die-off ...

A human has died of pneumonic plague in northern Arizona, Coconino County health officials confirmed July 11. The case is not connected to a recent die-off of prairie dogs in the area, officials said.