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

On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...

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 ...

From 1,000 to 3,000 cases of plague are reported each year ... As it advances, however, the dreaded bubonic plague causes painful swellings (buboes) in the lymph nodes. Septicemic plague infects ...

Well, believe it or not, the plague is still around. Blame fleas and the rats, mice, chipmunks, and squirrels they infect. Bubonic plague is caused by bacteria that live in fleas. If you get bit ...

Genetic testing of people who died in Kyrgyzstan eight years before plague reached Europe reveals an ancient strain of the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Reports of the infection—including one death this ...

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% ...

Bubonic plague is believed to have arrived in the country on a ship landing on the Dorset coast from Gascony in France. The disease quickly spread throughout the country. The first recorded case ...

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 ...

A bubonic plague has descended on Glasgow players - Tuipulotu, Cummings, Williamson, Steyn, Hastings. Have I missed some? Probably. All the focus has been on the damage done to Scotland's Six ...