A resident of Arizona has died from pneumonic plague, health officials confirmed on Friday. This was the first recorded death ...

A resident of northern Arizona has died from pneumonic plague, health officials said Friday. Plague is rare to humans, with ...

An Arizona resident has died from the “most serious” form of the plague, health officials said. The person tested positive ...

Pneumonic plague is both “the least common and most dangerous type of plague,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.

The death in Coconino County, which includes Flagstaff, was the first recorded death from pneumonic plague since 2007, local officials said.

Pneumonic plague is both “the least common and most dangerous type of plague,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.

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

Officials clarified that the death is unrelated to a recent prairie dog die-off in the Townsend-Winona area northeast of Flagstaff.

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

Officials said the resident died from pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection. The risk to the public remains low.

When you hear the word plague, many minds jump to the Bubonic plague from the 1300s, but Will Humble of the Arizona Public Health Association says that word has a different meaning today.