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

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

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 ...

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 ...

In humans, it manifests as either bubonic plague in the lymphatic system or pneumonic plague in the respiratory system. Both can be fatal without proper antibiotic treatment. Lab testing is the only ...

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 ...

Mongolian police have seized at least 288 dead marmots since mid-August raising concerns about the potential spread of bubonic plague according to a ...

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

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 ...

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 ...