The pneumonic plague, known more often as the black plague, claimed the life of a Northern Arizona resident, health officials ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A resident of northern Arizona has died of pneumonic plague, health officials said Friday. Plague is rare ...

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

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

A person has died of the pneumonic plague at the Flagstaff Medical Center in Arizona, according to Northern Arizona ...

The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.

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

A hospital said that one of their patients had a presumptive diagnosis of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria infamously known for killing millions of people centuries ago ...

The plague is likely to have come from rodents like prairie dogs, whose colonies are known to carry case after case of the disease ...

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

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

A patient in Arizona has died from pneumonic plague, raising fears of the medieval 'Black Death' returning to the US.