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

Animals such as rats can carry the bacterium that causes plague (Alamy/PA) ...

The patient had the pneumonic plague, the rarest and deadliest form of the disease. Human cases remain very uncommon in the ...

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

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Chinese public health authorities are taking precautions to prevent a bubonic plague outbreak in a remote northern region after a herder contracted the disease, although experts ...

An Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague, a rare but highly dangerous lung infection, Coconino County health ...

The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.

FILE - A bubonic plague warning sign is displayed at a parking lot near the Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019, in Commerce City, Colo. Officials in central Oregon ...

A plague outbreak in Madagascar has killed 170 people. Here’s what you need to know about treatment options and chances it will spread.

“Plague is often construed as shifting the course of history. It’s an easy explanation, too easy. It’s essential to establish a causal connection.” Many of these datasets, such as agricultural ...

An ancient bubonic plague outbreak often characterized as a mass killer that felled Eurasian civilizations was actually pretty tame, researchers say. Known as the Justinianic plague, the outbreak ...