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

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

Pneumonic plague, a highly contagious and often fatal lung infection caused by Yersinia pestis, recently caused a death in ...

The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.

The first pneumonic plague death in Arizona's Coconino County in almost two decades highlights the rare but deadly ...

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

Pneumonic plague is both “the least common and most dangerous type of plague,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A resident of northern Arizona has died of pneumonic plague, health officials said Friday. Plague is rare ...

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 northern Arizona resident died from the pneumonic plague, local health officials said. The person arrived at the Flagstaff Medical Center Emergency Department on Friday and died there the same day, ...

Health officials in northern Arizona confirmed Friday that a Coconino County resident died from the pneumonic plague, marking ...

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