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.

A resident from Coconino County in Arizona died from pneumonic plague, the first recorded death from the disease in the country since 2007. BBC, citing the country's Coconino County Health and Human Services,