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

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

The first case of the bubonic plague found in eight years in one US state has been found - and is said to have come from a cat. Oregon health officer Richard Fawcett told NBC News that the patient ...

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 ...

and of bacteriological materials of suspected and real cases of plague of human beings and of rats extending over a decade. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

Hers was no ordinary childhood disease. She had bubonic plague—the first case reported in the U.S. since last year when two boys in the same county died of the disease (TIME, Sept. 8 ...

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 ...

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% ...

Honolulu officials thought fire could stop the bubonic plague from spreading through the growing city. But high winds ...

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 ...

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 ...