A resident of Arizona has died from pneumonic plague, health officials confirmed on Friday. This was the first recorded death from the disease in the county since 2007, Coconino County Health and Human Services reported. In that case, a person had an interaction with a dead animal infected with the disease.

Health officials confirmed on Friday that an Arizona resident died of plague, a rare and severe lung infection.

Based on “rapid diagnostic testing,” officials with the Arizona Department of Health Services reported a presumptive case of plague caused by Yersinia pestis, a bacterium typically found in small mam...