Public health officials in Arizona have confirmed that a human in the state has died from pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection caused by the same bacterium that caused the Black Death.

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The death in Coconino County, which includes Flagstaff, was the first recorded death from pneumonic plague since 2007, local officials said.

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

The person was recently treated in a Flagstaff emergency room and died the same day. It has since been confirmed that the death was caused by pneumonia plague. Micaela Marshall has the latest.

When you hear the word plague, many minds jump to the Bubonic plague from the 1300s, but Will Humble of the Arizona Public Health Association says that word has a different meaning today.

One person in Flagstaff died from the plague, but the Arizona Public Health Association says there's no need to worry.

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It has since been confirmed that the patient’s death was caused by pneumonic plague, which is a severe lung infection caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium.