Alterations to a single gene in the plague bacterium's genome have shed light on a method the germ has used to survive and spread through the ages.

A person in northern Arizona died from bubonic (pneumonic) plague, marking Coconino County's first death from the disease ...

Another plague outbreak emerged in China in the 1850s and sparked a major epidemic in 1894. ... (the plague’s) long evolutionary history,” Sidhu said.

Animals such as rats can carry the bacterium that causes plague (Alamy/PA) ...

The world was no stranger to plague outbreaks: The most famous, known as the Black Death, killed as many as 50 million people in Europe beginning in 1346. Scientists believe infected fleas were ...

Bubonic plague is most often associated with the notorious epidemic in 14th-century Europe — where it killed around 25 million people between 1347 and 1351 — as well as subsequent outbreaks in ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. – Nowadays, plagues aren’t a regular occurrence in the United States, and especially not in Florida. However, the deadliest plague in history once struck the Sunshine State at ...

The three major plague pandemics are among the deadliest outbreaks in human history. The first pandemic, the Justinian Plague (which occurred roughly between A.D. 542 and 750), slashed the ...

An outbreak of bubonic plague from 1347 to 1352 in Europe famously killed about 30% to 50% of the continent’s population. But the earliest known bubonic plague outbreak — the Plague of Justinian — ...