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

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

Amid a prairie dog die-off near Flagstaff, one person in Northern Arizona has died from the plague after being hospitalized ...

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

Officials confirmed one person died of pneumonic plague just days after a prairie dog die-off believed to be related to ...

Coconino County has confirmed its first human death from the plague in nearly two decades. Health officials say a Coconino ...

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

A study of the genetic basis of plague immunity in prairie dogs has broad implications for conservation. From white-nose ...

Picture the open grasslands of North America, alive with the chatter of prairie dogs—creatures so unassuming, yet so ...

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

Though black-tailed prairie dogs have a long-standing reputation as pests, their ingenious tunnel systems and industrious prairie pruning make them one of the West’s primary ecosystem engineers.

If you ever have walked across a Nebraska prairie and noticed small dirt mounds dotting the landscape, heads popping from burrows and sharp barking, you likely have wandered into a ...