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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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