A case of plague has been confirmed in a person in Pueblo County, Colorado, officials said Tuesday. The case was flagged Friday from preliminary test results, and the potential source of the infection ...

The plague sounds like something out of a history book. But the disease—nicknamed the “Black Death” or “Great Pestilence”—that killed more than 25 million people, about a third of Europe, in medieval ...

Health officials in California identified a positive case of plague in a Lake Tahoe resident. El Dorado County officials said in a release that they have notified the California Department of Health ...

Ancient DNA from bones and teeth hints at a role of the plague in Stone Age population collapse. Contrary to previous beliefs, the plague may have diminished Europe's populations long before the major ...

FLAGSTAFF, AZ. (KPHO/Gray News) - A person in Arizona has died from the plague, health officials confirmed on Friday. The person was recently treated in a Flagstaff emergency room and died the same ...

A sign warns of bubonic plague near the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Commerce City, Colo., in 2019. A California resident recently contracted the plague. (David Zalubowski / ...

Scientists discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague, marking the first case of the disease outside Eurasia. De Agostini via Getty Images Scientists have ...