Person-to-person spread of the plague hasn’t been seen in the U.S. in more than a century – so what causes the occassional cases?

President Donald Trump was swept into office promising to Make America Healthy Again. Now his controversial Health Secretary, ...

By taking the now-powdery black pulp out of the teeth of plague victims buried in London's East Smithfield Cemetery —a cemetery established solely to handle theonslaught of the Black Death once ...

Just 24 hours after being admitted to hospital with symptoms of the pneumonic plague - a patient in Arizona tragically passed away from the terrifying illness, which was last seen in the UK in 1918 ...

Arizona: A resident of north Arizona died from pneumonic plague, marking the first death in the region in 18 years. The last death was reported in 2007, when an individual had contact with a dead ...

A MAN started growing boils up his arm just hours after catching the bubonic plague from his pet cat. The 73-year-old from Oregon, US, had accidentally cut his finger with a kitchen knife in ...

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.

The plague — which in the mid-14th century was also known as the Black Death — devastated swaths of Europe, killing millions in under a decade.

A woodcut from the 15th century depicts a patient suffering with the bubonic plague, known as the Black Death. The disease killed an estimated 50 million people in Europe between 1346 and 1353.

The plague — which in the mid-14th century was also known as the Black Death — devastated swaths of Europe, killing millions in under a decade. One of the puzzles surrounding this ancient ...