A person in Arizona recently died of pneumonic plague—a rare and severe form of the disease. An expert explains how the ...

Health officials are still searching for the source of the spread. FOX 10's Taylor Wirtz reports.

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.

The Arizona Public Health Association is advising the public that there is no need to worry about the plague, despite one ...

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

Septicemic plague occurs if bubonic plague is left untreated, or it can occur directly if the disease enters the bloodstream.

A rare pneumonic plague case turned fatal in Arizona. A Coconino County resident died quickly after hospital arrival. Health ...

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

The pla gene. In the new study, the team used hundreds of samples from ancient and modern plague victims.They screened the samples for a gene known as pla.This gene helps Yersinia pestis move ...