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An Arizona Resident Died From the Plague. Here’s What to Know About the Rare Disease
The patient had the pneumonic plague, the rarest and deadliest form of the disease. Human cases remain very uncommon in the ...
Plague makes a chilling return as patient drops dead within 24 hours
Just 24 hours after being admitted to hospital with symptoms of the pneumonic plague - a patient in Arizona tragically passed ...
Health and Me on MSN19h
Pneumonic Plague Death Raises Alarm, Can Prairie Dogs Be The Cause Of It?
A sudden death caused by the pneumonic plague has caused a stir. Previously known to be the cause of bubonic plague, people ...
Plague claims northern Arizona resident
Pneumonic plague is caused by bacteria carried by species like rats and prairie dogs. Pneumonic and bubonic plague ...
FOX 10 Phoenix on MSN2d
Plague in Arizona: Health officials address concerns after Flagstaff death
The Arizona Public Health Association is advising the public that there is no need to worry about the plague, despite one ...
Arizona Resident Dies From Plague, Officials Say
The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.
Arizona resident dies from the plague, marking first death from disease in two decades
A northern Arizona resident died from the pneumonic plague, local health officials said. The person arrived at the Flagstaff Medical Center Emergency Department on Friday and died there the same day, ...
Arizona resident dies of pneumonic plague
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A resident of northern Arizona has died of pneumonic plague, health officials said Friday. Plague is rare ...
First bubonic plague death confirmed in US since 2007
A bubonic plague death has been confirmed in the US for the first time in eight years. The victim, of Coconino County, showed ...