Arizona's Coconino County, near Flagstaff, has reported a pneumonic plague death, its first since 2007. The Arizona resident, ...

In a historic breakthrough for global medicine, Israeli researchers have made a ground-breaking development of the world’s ...

The disease was found following tests on a severely emaciated doe that was euthanized and tested in early June, Andrea Korman ...

The largest outbreak of pneumonic plague in the U.S. since 1924 that sickened four people in Colorado in 2014 all started with a sick pit bull, according to a report from the Centers for Disease ...

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A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive for centuries.

GENEVA — An outbreak of plague has killed 40 people in Madagascar, the World Health Organization said, warning that the disease could spread rapidly in the country’s densely populated capital ...