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

A person in Arizona has died from the plague, local health officials reported on Friday. This marks the first such death in ...

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.

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 ...

The Plague of Justinian in the mid-500s is the first recorded plague pandemic in human history. It is named for Justinian I, the Byzantine emperor at that time, and it devastated the Mediterranean ...

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.

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

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.

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.

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