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 ...

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Known as the Black Death, the much feared disease spread quickly for centuries, killing millions. The bacterial infection still occurs but can be treated with antibiotics.

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 ...

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 Black Death, the world’s most devastating plague outbreak, killed half of medieval Europe’s population in the space of seven years, shifting the course of human history. It was more than ...