Animals such as rats can carry the bacterium that causes plague (Alamy/PA) ...

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ARIZONA — Health officials have reported the first plague death since 2007, according to CBS News and the AP. Plague is ...

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

The pneumonic plague, known more often as the black plague, claimed the life of a Northern Arizona resident, health officials ...

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

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

A sign warning of bubonic plague is displayed at a parking lot near the Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge in Commerce ...

When you hear the word plague, many minds jump to the Bubonic plague from the 1300s, but Will Humble of the Arizona Public ...

The Arizona Public Health Association is advising the public that there is no need to worry about the plague, despite one person in Flagstaff dying from the disease.

Health officials confirmed on Friday that an Arizona resident died of plague, a rare and severe lung infection.