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.

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

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

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

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

Arizona reports its first death from the pneumonic plague since 2007, with health officials emphasizing the disease's rarity ...

The first pneumonic plague death in Arizona's Coconino County in almost two decades highlights the rare but deadly ...

A human has died of pneumonic plague in northern Arizona, Coconino County health officials said. The victim sought help at a Flagstaff hospital.

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 ...

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

Coconino County Health and Human Services recently received a report of a prairie dog die-off on private land northeast of ...