Septicemic plague occurs if bubonic plague is left untreated, or it can occur directly if the disease enters the bloodstream.

Pneumonic plague is the most serious form of plague that is caused when bacteria spread to the lungs of a patient with bubonic or septicemic plague.

Plague is one of the deadliest diseases in human history, second only to smallpox. A bacterial infection found mainly in rodents and associated fleas, plague readily leaps to humans in close contact.

The plague—yes, that plague—is alive and well in the modern world. If this comes as a shock, well, you've come to the right place.

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.

Plague outbreaks in London spread four times faster in the 17th century than they did in the 14th century, researchers have estimated after studying troves of wills and death records.

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 ...

Mar. 8—New Mexico recently reported its first human plague case since 2021, but plague has been in the state for decades and New Mexico accounts for many of the human plague cases in the U.S.

Some plague doctors may have worn spooky-looking beak mask costumes to prevent infection during disease epidemics.

An over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague marks the first case of the disease outside the Eurasian continent.

When bubonic plague first struck America, officials tried to cover it up. In 1900, the dreaded Black Death showed up in California, setting off a two-year political firestorm.

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