Research has found that the bacteria that cause the plague evolved to become less deadly over time. This allowed it to ...

President Donald Trump was swept into office promising to Make America Healthy Again. Now his controversial Health Secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, must contend with the return of the Black Death.

A person in Arizona recently died of pneumonic plague—a rare and severe form of the disease. An expert explains how the bacteria that spurred the Black Death centuries ago continues to claim lives ...

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

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 ...

All three major types of the plague are rare in the modern day. One type, bubonic plague, was the main cause of the fourteenth century’s Black Death pandemic, which left a trail of death and ...

One type, bubonic plague, was the main cause of the fourteenth century’s Black Death pandemic, which left a trail of death and devastation across Europe.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A resident of northern Arizona has died from pneumonic plague, health officials said Friday. Plague is rare to humans, with on average about seven cases reported annually in ...

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.

Scientists from Tel Aviv University and the Israel Institute of Biological Research say their vaccine uses lipid nanoparticles and shows 100% protection in animal models ...