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Arizona, Pneumonic Plague and Black Death
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A northern Arizona resident has died from the pneumonic plague, health officials confirmed on Friday, the first such death in Coconino County in nearly 20 years.
An Arizona resident has died from the plague as officials were probing whether a prairie dog die-off in the area was also tied to the lethal illness.
The death is the first recorded case of fatal pneumonic plague in the county since 2007, when a resident became infected after contact with a dead animal.
An Arizona resident had succumbed to the Black Death, marking the county's first plague death since 2007. Coconino County health officials withheld the person's name and gender, but confirmed their cause of death to be pneumonic plague caused by the ...
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