The cat was located in Evergreen near Cub Creek Park, and is being hailed as the first confirmed plague case in Jefferson ...

Oral ciprofloxacin alone was as effective as a regimen combined with an injectable antibiotic for bubonic plague, a ...

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?

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — More than a year after the bubonic plague was detected in Oregon, federal public health leaders have uncovered more details on the case. In mid-February 2024, KOIN 6 ...

The Oregon Health Authority has tracked plague cases since 1934, with 21 cases in the past 91 years, including three in ...

To help with these questions about the plague, CNN spoke with wellness expert Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and clinical associate professor at George Washington University.

Bubonic plague infects lymph nodes. Septicemic plague is when the bacteria cause a whole-body infection through the bloodstream, and pneumonic plague affects the lungs.

Those with bubonic plague have one or more swollen and painful lymph nodes, also called buboes. In septicemic plague, the seeding of bacteria to other parts of the body can cause multi-organ failure ...