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

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

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

Coconino County Health and Human Services (CCHHS) officials received confirmatory test results on July 11 and have confirmed ...

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.

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.

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

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 ...

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.