Arizona confirms plague death
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A Flagstaff patient died from pneumonic plague, officials confirmed. It’s the first recorded case in Coconino County in nearly two decades.
An Arizona resident has died from the plague as officials were probing whether a prairie dog die-off in the area was also tied to the lethal illness.
A person in northern Arizona died from bubonic (pneumonic) plague, marking Coconino County's first death from the disease since 2007.