A patient in rural northern Arizona was diagnosed with plague—a bacterial disease caused by Yersinia pestis—after experiencing sudden fever, chills, swollen lymph nodes, and respiratory distress. The case,

The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.

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