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A person died from plague in Coconino County for the first time in nearly 20 years.

Pneumonic plague is caused by bacteria carried by species like rats and prairie dogs.

Pneumonic and bubonic plague transmission and symptoms vary.

Pneumonic plague killed a resident of northern Arizona, who died in the emergency room at Flagstaff Medical Center.

No information on age, gender or other demographics was provided by Coconino County Health and Human Services. The notice said the risk of human-to-human transmission is extraordinarily low, according to the National Institutes of Health.

The New York Times reported the recent death is the first from this plague in Coconino County in nearly 20 years.

Pneumonic plague is a terrible lung infection that, like bubonic plague, is cau

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