Understanding how the jet stream behaved in the past is crucial for figuring out how it might be changing as the Earth heats ...

A person in Pueblo County, Colorado, about 100 miles south of Denver, has been infected with bubonic plague, local health officials said Monday. Last week, state and local officials identified the ...

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

Insects can be deadly, causing physical harm, spreading diseases, and ruining crops. Species like mosquitoes, assassin ...

There would be malaria and smallpox. In 1905, the Rand Plague Committee published a report detailing outbreaks of pneumonic plague and bubonic plague in those first years of the new century. There ...

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 ...

Hillbrow started out as Johannesburg’s first health hub in the late 1880s. It’s also been a suburb associated with pimps and sex work, a middle finger to the Nationalist Party and a key site of the ...

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 ...

Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I promulgated an entirely new Roman code of law in November 534 A.D. His Empire, however, was ...