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

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

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

A PERSON has died from plague just 24 hours after they showed up at hospital with symptoms, health officials have said. The victim was rushed to Flagstaff Medical Center in Arizona, US, showing ...

Animals such as rats can carry the bacterium that causes plague (Alamy/PA) ...

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An Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague, a rare but highly dangerous lung infection, Coconino County health ...

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

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

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 bubonic plague death has been confirmed in the US for the first time in eight years. The victim, of Coconino County, showed ...