ARIZONA — Health officials have reported the first plague death since 2007, according to CBS News and the AP. Plague is ...

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

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

A Flagstaff patient died from pneumonic plague, officials confirmed. It’s the first recorded case in Coconino County in ...

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

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 sign warning of bubonic plague is displayed at a parking lot near the Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge in Commerce ...