A pet owner has caught a rare case of the bubonic plague, health officials in central Oregon say, and it's believed they may ...

The patterns of Earth’s high winds have surprisingly widespread effects on life on the ground. A recent study in the journal ...

A person in Pueblo County, Colorado, about 100 miles south of Denver, has been infected with bubonic plague, local health ...

Eberstadt approaches this with a note of optimism. “Humanity bestrides the planet, explores the cosmos, and continues to ...

The Black Death is probably the most famous pandemic in history. Between 1347 and 1351, this outbreak of bubonic plague killed millions of people across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

Well, believe it or not, the plague is still around. Blame fleas and the rats, mice, chipmunks, and squirrels they infect. Bubonic plague is caused by bacteria that live in fleas. If you get bit ...

ULAN BATOR, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- Mongolian police have seized at least 288 dead marmots since mid-August, raising concerns about the potential spread of bubonic plague, according to an announcement ...

Public health officials in Colorado recently confirmed that a man has plague. The narrator of Charlotte Wood’s new novel has shed her life to live with nuns. The world intrudes in the form of ...

Plague is usually transmitted to humans through bites from infected fleas, according to the World Health Organization. But it can also be transmitted via inhalation of airborne “droplets” or contact ...

Washington State University pathologists have confirmed a rare case of plague in a mule deer found blind and emaciated in Idaho. Caused by the bacterium, Yersinia pestis, plague occurs naturally ...

In the decades that followed, d’Hérelle and others used this phage therapy to treat bubonic plague and cholera, until the technique fell into disuse after the widespread adoption of antibiotics ...