Various regions of the United States have experienced outbreaks spurred by bacteria, viruses and parasites in recent months. Some of these events have neared epidemic proportions, while others have ...

YOSEMITE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Posters warning visitors about the plague have been catching the eye of Yosemite National Park visitors – but, rangers say the signs are merely cautionary. In the photo ...

Thousands of dead and dying rats have washed up on beaches in a small Australian coastal town, much to the disgust and horror of the locals. The rodents drifted ashore in the fishing town of Karumba ...

One month after a man in Oregon contracted the bubonic plague from his sick cat, a different man has died from the disease after falling ill in New Mexico. Around three years after New Mexico’s last ...

The bacteria that cause the plague evolved to be less deadly over time, allowing it to infect people in 3 separate pandemics over more than a thousand years.

(CNN) — The word “plague” brings to mind the great scourge of the Middle Ages that filled the streets and so-called plague pits with the bodies of its victims. But as recent news reports remind us, we ...

A person in Arizona has died from the plague, local health officials reported on Friday. This marks the first such death in this region in 18 years. But it's a stark reminder that this historic ...

Yersinia pestis bacteria as seen under a microscope. This bacteria is the cause of the Bubonic plague, also known as the Black Plague or Black Death. NIAID A 10-year-old girl contracted the plague and ...

A person in Arizona has died from the plague, local health officials reported on Friday. This marks the first such death in this region in 18 years. But it’s a stark reminder that this historic ...

The bubonic plague – the most destructive pandemic ever that killed millions in the Middle Ages – is still with us. While it is unlikely that it will return with the vengeance of the Spanish influenza ...