An Arizona resident has died from the bubonic plague as health officials warned that a prairie dog die-off in the region could signal an outbreak of the lethal illness. The person died at Flagstaff ...

The word "plague" is often used to refer to any major disease epidemic or pandemic, or even to other undesirable events, such ...

The patient had the pneumonic plague, the rarest and deadliest form of the disease. Human cases remain very uncommon in the ...

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

One person is dead, according to officials with Northern Arizona Healthcare, on the same day they showed up at Flagstaff ...

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

An Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague, a rare but highly dangerous lung infection, Coconino County health ...

Northern Arizona Healthcare confirmed Friday a person recently died at the Flagstaff Medical Center of pneumonic plague.

This time around, doctors and plague experts are worried about the Arizona outbreak due to the fact that rodents tested positive for the bacteria within a 120-mile span.

Fleas tested positive for the the bubonic plague in two counties in Arizona, ... The last urban outbreak of the plague in the U.S. occurred in Los Angeles in 1924. Today, ...

Health officials in Arizona have confirmed the death of a resident from the pneumonic plague - but they've not linked the ...