Caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, plague's most common form is bubonic plague, which features swollen, painful lymph ...

The bubonic plague pandemic, known as Black Death, which occurred from 1346 to 1353 in Europe, claimed the lives of 50 ...

The announcement of the case comes as an Arizona resident died of the plague just last month, while officials warned that a ...

Ten-day course of antibiotics found to be highly effective for treating bubonic plague in world-first clinical ...

A Colorado town is on high alert after a dead cat tested positive for the plague – mere weeks after an Arizona man died from ...

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 ...

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.

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 Januar… ...

The first pneumonic plague death in Arizona's Coconino County in almost two decades highlights the rare but deadly respiratory disease transmitted mainly by infected fleas.

“Symptoms of bubonic plague include fever, chills, and headache followed by intense pain and swelling in a lymph node-bearing area,” she said.

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.