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 ...

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

A deadly case of pneumonic plague has claimed a life in Northern Arizona, with the victim dying at Flagstaff Medical Center ...

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

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

The death in Coconino County, which includes Flagstaff, was the first recorded death from pneumonic plague since 2007, local ...

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

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, ...

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.

Plague is often associated with Medieval history and the centuries-old Black Death epidemic, but a recent death in northern Arizona is a troublesome reminder of the flea-borne disease’s lingering hold ...

An Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague, a rare but highly dangerous lung infection, Coconino County health ...