The exact details haven’t been released yet, but local health officials have confirmed it’s the first plague death in the ...

A Coconino County resident died of a rare case of pneumonic plague earlier this month. Dave Wagner, director of Northern ...

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

The patient had arrived at Flagstaff Medical Center and died in the emergency room. It is the first known plague-related ...

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

Officials in northern Arizona are detailing the steps that were taken after a person died from the Plague earlier in July.

CCHHS also confirmed on Tuesday afternoon a case of hantavirus and an incident of rabies exposure in Coconino County.

Plague infections and deaths are rare in humans - Coconino County reported the first recorded death from plague since 2007.

A PERSON has died from plague just 24 hours after they showed up at hospital with symptoms, health officials have said. The ...

A resident of northern Arizona has died from pneumonic plague, health officials said Friday. Plague is rare to humans, with ...

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 ...

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