A person in Arizona recently died of pneumonic plague—a rare and severe form of the disease. An expert explains how the ...

A ccording to the CDC, there are approximately seven cases of plague reported in the US each year. These days, the plague is ...

Coconino County Health and Human Services (CCHHS) officials received confirmatory test results on July 11 and have confirmed ...

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.

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.

Bubonic plague is typically spread by fleas living on animals such as rats, prairie dogs and marmots. If an infected flea ...

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

Officials in northern Arizona are detailing the steps that were taken after a person died from the Plague earlier in July.

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

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

Arizona's Coconino County, near Flagstaff, has reported a pneumonic plague death, its first since 2007. The Arizona resident, ...