CCHHS also confirmed on Tuesday afternoon a case of hantavirus and an incident of rabies exposure in Coconino County.

A sudden death caused by the pneumonic plague has caused a stir. Previously known to be the cause of bubonic plague, people ...

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

A person in Arizona recently died of pneumonic plague—a rare and severe form of the disease. An expert explains how the ...

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

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

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

The patient had arrived at Flagstaff Medical Center and died in the emergency room. It is the first known plague-related ...

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

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

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.

Septicemic plague occurs if bubonic plague is left untreated, or it can occur directly if the disease enters the bloodstream.