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

Coconino County Health and Human Services recently received a report of a prairie dog die-off on private land northeast of ...

Officials confirmed one person died of pneumonic plague just days after a prairie dog die-off believed to be related to ...

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

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

A person in northern Arizona has died from a case of pneumonic plague, local health officials said. The unidentified patient, ...

An Arizona resident has died from the plague as officials were probing whether a prairie dog die-off in the area was also ...

A human has died of pneumonic plague in northern Arizona, Coconino County health officials said. The victim sought help at a ...

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 ...

Amid a prairie dog die-off near Flagstaff, one person in Northern Arizona has died from the plague after being hospitalized ...

Officials clarified that the death is unrelated to a recent prairie dog die-off in the Townsend-Winona area northeast of Flagstaff.