Most people don’t need to be concerned about the plague based on a recent death in Arizona. But take precautions if you live ...

A recent pneumonic plague death in Northern Arizona, the first since 2007, has raised concerns about this rare but deadly ...

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It has since been confirmed that the patient’s death was caused by pneumonic plague, which is a severe lung infection caused ...

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

A northern Arizona resident has died from the pneumonic plague, health officials confirmed on Friday, the first such death in Coconino County in nearly 20 years.

The patient was recently treated at an emergency department in Flagstaff and died the same day, Northern Arizona Healthcare ...

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.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A resident of northern Arizona has died from pneumonic plague, health officials said Friday. Plague ...