A patient who died at a Flagstaff, Arizona hospital last week was diagnosed with the bacteria that causes the plague, marking the first known plague-related death in Coconino County since 2007.

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 ...

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

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

As per the hospital, the patient in Arizona failed to recover even after "appropriate initial management" and “attempts to provide life-saving resuscitation”.

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

When you hear the word plague, many minds jump to the Bubonic plague from the 1300s, but Will Humble of the Arizona Public Health Association says that word has a different meaning today.

Plague is ever-present in the Flagstaff area, and often associated with prairie dogs, Coconino County environmental specialist Hugh Murray said.