The CDC reports that about 7 human cases of pneumonic plague are reported each year nationwide, but this case is the first known US death since 2007.

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 ...

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 Arizona Public Health Association is advising the public that there is no need to worry about the plague, despite one ...

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

A northern Arizona resident has died from the pneumonic plague, health officials confirmed on Friday, the first such death in Coconino County in nearly 20 years.

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

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.

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

A Flagstaff patient died from pneumonic plague, officials confirmed. It’s the first recorded case in Coconino County in ...