A pet owner has caught a rare case of the bubonic plague, health officials in central Oregon say, and it's believed they may ...

From 1347 to 1351, the bubonic plague killed between 30 to 50 per cent of the population of Europe, with estimated death figures ranging anywhere from 75 and 200 million people. Doctors at the ...

In either case, death usually happened within three days. One of the biggest outbreaks of the bubonic plague was the Great Plague of 1665. This was the worst outbreak for over 300 years and ...

Is the bubonic plague still around? More on: CDC 5 day isolation, measles transmission, Oregon bubonic plague case, plus Alaskapox virus. Out guest is AMA's Vice President of Science, Medicine and ...

Millions of rats were killed and in 2 months no new cases of plague were reported. Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout Europe and Asia over the past centuries. In the ...

But with recent cases popping up in parts of the world ... they had made progress on an injection that could prevent bubonic plague from developing. A trial of their vaccine on 40 healthy adults ...

The Black Death — also known as bubonic plague — has killed 200million people worldwide and medics fear a super-strength version may now appear. The team behind the Oxford AstraZeneca ...

Bites from infected fleas are the most common cause of bubonic plague infection ... Between 2010 and 2015 there were 3,248 cases worldwide, leading to 584 deaths - a fatality rate of 18% ...

BBC Scotland's chief sportswriter Tom English has been answering some of your Scottish rugby questions. Glenn asked: Will the ...

Health officials in Colorado are investigating a human case of the bubonic plague confirmed in a person in Pueblo County. The CDC noted that “a plague vaccine is no longer available in the ...