A person died from pneumonic plague in Arizona last week, the first death from the disease in this region in nearly two decades.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The symptoms and causes of the most common types of plagues after a north Arizona resident died within hours of attending a medical facility.

Arizona reports its first death from the pneumonic plague since 2007, with health officials emphasizing the disease's rarity ...

A sudden death caused by the pneumonic plague has caused a stir. Previously known to be the cause of bubonic plague, people ...

Pneumonic plague is the most serious form of plague that is caused when bacteria spread to the lungs of a patient with bubonic or septicemic plague.