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

MONDAY, July 14, 2025 (HealthDay News) — An Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague, a rare but serious illness, ...

The first pneumonic plague death in Arizona's Coconino County in almost two decades highlights the rare but deadly ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A resident of northern Arizona has died of pneumonic plague, health officials said Friday. Plague is rare ...

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

Pneumonic plague, a highly contagious and often fatal lung infection caused by Yersinia pestis, recently caused a death in ...

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.

A resident of Northern Arizona's Coconino County succumbed to pneumonic plague, marking the first such death since 2007.

The ‘Black Death’ plague, once so deadly that it killed half of Europe, is now treatable with antibiotics.

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

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

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