Animals such as rats can carry the bacterium that causes plague (Alamy/PA) ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Chinese public health authorities are taking precautions to prevent a bubonic plague outbreak in a remote northern region after a herder contracted the disease, although experts ...

The word "plague" is often used to refer to any major disease epidemic or pandemic, or even to other undesirable events, such ...

Most people don’t need to be concerned about the plague based on a recent death in Arizona. But take precautions if you live ...

Amid a prairie dog die-off near Flagstaff, one person in Northern Arizona has died from the plague after being hospitalized ...

An Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague, a rare but highly dangerous lung infection, Coconino County health ...

FILE - A bubonic plague warning sign is displayed at a parking lot near the Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019, in Commerce City, Colo. Officials in central Oregon ...

In many parts of the world, like Europe, the plague is thought to have been eliminated. French scientists find evidence that the stubborn bacteria can trigger new outbreaks even after decades of ...

A plague outbreak in Madagascar has killed 170 people. Here’s what you need to know about treatment options and chances it will spread.

“Plague is often construed as shifting the course of history. It’s an easy explanation, too easy. It’s essential to establish a causal connection.” Many of these datasets, such as agricultural ...

A plague burial pit in East Smithfield, London. The plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis is dated to have first emerged in humans about 5,000 years ago.

An ancient bubonic plague outbreak often characterized as a mass killer that felled Eurasian civilizations was actually pretty tame, researchers say. Known as the Justinianic plague, the outbreak ...