Researchers recovered the first Yersinia pestis bacteria genome from a Bronze Age animal. It reveals how a plague spread in ...

For the first time, archeologists and anthropologists have identified this ancient plague in an animal: a 4,000-year-old ...

The Black Death, a deadly bubonic plague pandemic in the 14th century, caused widespread havoc, claiming around 200 million ...

The announcement of the case comes as an Arizona resident died of the plague just last month, while officials warned that a ...

A new study has decoded a mysterious plague that swept across Eurasia thousands of years ago. An ancient strain of plague ...

Four thousand years ago, a sheep in the Eurasian Steppe carried a lethal bacterium that once swept across continents. The ...

Sheep helped spread an early form of the plague, suggests new research. The bacterium that causes bubonic plague has been ...

Plague has been known to affect prairie dogs in the southwest region of the U.S. The dog's owner remained hospitalized for 23 days as he recovered from the potentially deadly disease, the report said.