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

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

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

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

Officials said the resident died from pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection. The risk to the public remains low.

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

Coconino County health officials say they’re investigating a reported prairie dog die-off northeast of Flagstaff, and that ...

Arizona health officials are concerned about a prairie dog die-off northeast of Flagstaff that could be the result of a ...

A Flagstaff patient died from pneumonic plague, officials confirmed. It’s the first recorded case in Coconino County in ...

Coconino County Health and Human Services (CCHHS) received a report on Monday of a prairie dog die-off in the Townsend Winona ...

Many prairie dog populations in North America have been nearly wiped out by sylvatic plague, which is caused by the same bacteria that causes the Black Death in humans: Yersinia pestis.

If you ever have walked across a Nebraska prairie and noticed small dirt mounds dotting the landscape, heads popping from ...