The plague is likely to have come from rodents like prairie dogs, whose colonies are known to carry case after case of the disease ...

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A resident of the southwestern U.S. state of Arizona has died from pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium, health officials confirmed on Friday, July 11, BBC ...

Public health officials in Arizona have confirmed that a human in the state has died from pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection caused by the same bacterium that caused the Black Death.

A person in northern Arizona died from bubonic (pneumonic) plague, marking Coconino County's first death from the disease since 2007.

A resident of Arizona has died from pneumonic plague, health officials confirmed on Friday. This was the first recorded death ...

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A person died in Flagstaff of the rare illness related to the bubonic plague. Once called the “Black Death,” plague is now curable in all its forms if treated quickly.