Most people don’t need to be concerned about the plague based on a recent death in Arizona. But take precautions if you live ...

Animals such as rats can carry the bacterium that causes plague (Alamy/PA) ...

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An Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague, a rare but highly dangerous lung infection, Coconino County health ...

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

Coconino County health officials withheld the person's name and gender, but confirmed their cause of death to be pneumonic ...

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Trio of outbreaks Plague’s most common form is bubonic plague, which causes painful swelling in lymph nodes and spreads among people through bites from fleas hitchhiking on infected rats.

An outbreak of bubonic plague from 1347 to 1352 in Europe famously killed about 30% to 50% of the continent’s population.

Another plague outbreak emerged in China in the 1850s and sparked a major epidemic in 1894. Scientists view modern plague cases as part of this third pandemic.