Arizona health officials have confirmed one of the rarest infections in the country: plague. A patient in rural northern Arizona was diagnosed with plague—a bacterial disease caused by Yersinia pestis ...

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

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

Pneumonic plague is the most serious form of plague that is caused when bacteria spread to the lungs of a patient with bubonic or septicemic plague.

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

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

A Coconino County resident died of pneumonic plague at Flagstaff Medical Center, the first such death since 2007. Caused by ...

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

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

It has since been confirmed that the patient’s death was caused by pneumonic plague, which is a severe lung infection caused ...

Coconino County has confirmed its first human death from the plague in nearly two decades. Health officials say a Coconino ...

A northern Arizona resident has died from the pneumonic plague, health officials confirmed on Friday, the first such death in ...