A person in northern Arizona died from bubonic (pneumonic) plague, marking Coconino County's first death from the disease ...

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

Public health officials in Arizona have confirmed that a human in the state has died from pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection caused by the same bacterium that caused the Black Death ...

The death is the first recorded case of fatal pneumonic plague in the county since 2007, when a resident became infected after contact with a dead animal.