A rash of pneumonic plague in China claims at least three lives. Aug. 11, 2009— -- Ten days after quarantining a town of 10,000 people after three deaths from the pneumonic plague, Chinese ...

Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death. While extremely ...

Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death.

Today we're talking about the Plague of Athens that ravaged the city in 430 BCE- the first in a series of Past Pandemics.

Credit: Karl-Göran Sjögren, University of Gothenburg. Europe’s first farming populations were wiped out by plague, say researchers who have identified genomes of a 4,900-year-old strain of the ...

Black rats can carry fleas hosting the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which causes the plague. Credit: Tom McHugh/Science Photo Library. A small genetic change makes the bacterium that caused the ...

Four people were infected with the dangerous disease last summer. — -- A plague-infected dog spread the dangerous disease to four Colorado residents, according to a new report from the U.S ...

A human case of the plague has appeared in Pueblo County, Colorado, according to preliminary test results. It is the first case in the state since a child from La Plata County died in 2021 ...