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Most people don’t need to be concerned about the plague based on a recent death in Arizona. But take precautions if you live ...
A person in Arizona recently died of pneumonic plague—a rare and severe form of the disease. An expert explains how the ...
A Coconino County resident died of a rare case of pneumonic plague earlier this month. Dave Wagner, director of Northern ...
The patient had the pneumonic plague, the rarest and deadliest form of the disease. Human cases remain very uncommon in the ...
The first pneumonic plague death in Arizona's Coconino County in almost two decades highlights the rare but deadly ...
Pneumonic plague is caused by bacteria carried by species like rats and prairie dogs. Pneumonic and bubonic plague ...
Pneumonic plague is both “the least common and most dangerous type of plague,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.
An Arizona resident died of pneumonic plague, a serious lung infection that requires antibiotics. Here’s what you need to ...
A resident of Northern Arizona recently died after being infected with the pneumonic plague, the first death in the US since 2007.
The death in Coconino County, which includes Flagstaff, was the first recorded death from pneumonic plague since 2007, local ...
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 has died from pneumonic plague, health officials said Friday. Plague is rare to humans, with ...