To help with these questions about the plague, CNN spoke with wellness expert Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and ...

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

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 recently died of pneumonic plague—a rare and severe form of the disease. An expert explains how the ...

Today we're talking about the Plague of Athens that ravaged the city in 430 BCE- the first in a series of Past Pandemics. Watch and learn about the plague that signalled the beginning of the end ...

The Plague of Justinian in the mid-500s is the first recorded plague pandemic in human history.

Alterations to a single gene in the plague bacterium's genome have shed light on a method the germ has used to survive and spread through the ages.

Australia’s coordinated response to the plague outbreak was instrumental in proving the importance of public health and modern, sanitary urbanplanning principles in controlling the spread of ...

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.

While no longer as lethal as the infection behind the Black Death, plague is still frequently fatal unless swiftly treated with antibiotics.

Health officials in Colorado are investigating a human case of the bubonic plague confirmed in a person in Pueblo County, the Department of Public Health and Environment said in a news release ...