The patient was recently treated at an emergency department in Flagstaff and died the same day, Northern Arizona Healthcare ...

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

An Arizona resident has died from the plague as officials were probing whether a prairie dog die-off in the area was also ...

Coconino County health officials say they’re investigating a reported prairie dog die-off northeast of Flagstaff, and that ...

Symptoms of plague in humans include fever, chills, and swollen lymph nodes. Prairie dogs are dying in northern Arizona, and officials are concerned the cause could be the plague.

A human has died of pneumonic plague in northern Arizona, Coconino County health officials confirmed July 11. The case is not connected to a recent die-off of prairie dogs in the area, officials said.

Prairie dogs are "highly susceptible to plague but are not considered a long-term reservoir of the disease," according to officials in Coconino County, where the most recent patient died.

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