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

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

Just 24 hours after being admitted to hospital with symptoms of the pneumonic plague - a patient in Arizona tragically passed away from the terrifying illness, which was last seen in the UK in 1918 ...

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

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Chinese public health authorities are taking precautions to prevent a bubonic plague outbreak in a remote northern region after a herder contracted the disease, although experts ...

The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.

Amid a prairie dog die-off near Flagstaff, one person in Northern Arizona has died from the plague after being hospitalized ...

A plague outbreak in Madagascar has killed 170 people. Here’s what you need to know about treatment options and chances it will spread.

For one, the Black Death tore through Europe far faster than any modern plague outbreaks. In addition, “rat falls” precede some modern outbreaks, but medieval plague records don’t mention ...

But the earliest known bubonic plague outbreak — the Plague of Justinian — took hold in the Mediterranean Basin and lasted from AD 541 to AD 544. Another plague outbreak emerged in China in ...

A plague burial pit in East Smithfield, London. The plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis is dated to have first emerged in humans about 5,000 years ago.