The word "plague" is often used to refer to any major disease epidemic or pandemic, or even to other undesirable events, such ...

The skeletons are among more than 20 burials found during the excavation project near the White Tower, which was built by ...

A person in Arizona recently died of pneumonic plague—a rare and severe form of the disease. An expert explains how the ...

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

A mummy in Egypt has yielded a shocking discovery: the DNA of the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis—thousands of years before ...

Officials in northern Arizona are detailing the steps that were taken after a person died from the Plague earlier in July.

This was a crucial moment in our evolutionary history, but it also marked a significant change in our relationship to ...

Israeli researchers create the world’s first 100 effective mRNA vaccine against Bubonic Plague paving the way for more ...

The ‘Black Death’ plague, once so deadly that it killed half of Europe, is now treatable with antibiotics.

An Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague, a rare but highly dangerous lung infection, Coconino County health officials confirmed on Friday. This incident marks the first death from the ...

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