The patient was recently treated at an emergency department in Flagstaff and died the same day, Northern Arizona Healthcare ...

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

A hospital said that one of their patients had a presumptive diagnosis of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria infamously known for killing millions of people centuries ago ...

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

Plague, once known as the ‘Black Death’ that nearly wiped out half of Europe's population, is now rare in humans and treatable with antibiotics. It is caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis ...

The death in Coconino County, which includes Flagstaff, was the first recorded death from pneumonic plague since 2007, local officials said.

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

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 Health Association says that word has a different meaning today.

John Paxton with the Coconino County Sheriff's Office provides an update on the White Sage Fire that's already burned 8,700 ...