A northern Arizona resident has died from the pneumonic plague, health officials confirmed on Friday, the first such death in Coconino County in nearly 20 years.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- A resident of northern Arizona has died from pneumonic plague, health officials said Friday. Plague is rare to humans, with on average about seven cases reported annually in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.