The recent death in the United States was due to a case of pneumonic plague, which is the most severe form. Bubonic plague ...

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

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 ...

Septicemic plague occurs if bubonic plague is left untreated, or it can occur directly if the disease enters the bloodstream.

The patient had the pneumonic plague, the rarest and deadliest form of the disease. Human cases remain very uncommon in the ...

A PERSON has died from plague just 24 hours after they showed up at hospital with symptoms, health officials have said. The ...

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.

Scientists in Tel Aviv and IIBR have developed an mRNA vaccine. It combats the deadly Yersinia pestis bacterium. This ...

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 ...