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Plague infections and deaths are rare in humans - Coconino County reported the first recorded death from plague since 2007.
Most people don’t need to be concerned about the plague based on a recent death in Arizona. But take precautions if you live ...
The word "plague" is often used to refer to any major disease epidemic or pandemic, or even to other undesirable events, such ...
A person in Arizona recently died of pneumonic plague—a rare and severe form of the disease. An expert explains how the ...
The death in Coconino County, which includes Flagstaff, was the first recorded death from pneumonic plague since 2007, local ...
Officials said the resident died from pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection. The risk to the public remains low.
The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.
The disease is rarely found in humans, so much so that only seven people are diagnosed with the severe lung infection annually in the United States.
Pneumonic plague is both “the least common and most dangerous type of plague,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.
The first pneumonic plague death in Arizona's Coconino County in almost two decades highlights the rare but deadly ...
The exact details haven’t been released yet, but local health officials have confirmed it’s the first plague death in the ...
A northern Arizona resident died from the pneumonic plague, local health officials said. The person arrived at the Flagstaff Medical Center Emergency Department on Friday and died there the same day, ...