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 ...

Residents in Poplar, North Carolina, are fighting to shut down what the state recently deemed an "illegal" mine operation ...

Oral ciprofloxacin alone was as effective as a regimen combined with an injectable antibiotic for bubonic plague, a ...

Around 5,000 years ago, a mysterious form of plague spread throughout Eurasia, only to disappear 2,000 years later. Known ...

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

Researchers from the U.K. and Madagascar, in collaboration with Madagascar's health services and national plague program, ...

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

A Colorado town is on high alert after a dead cat tested positive for the plague – mere weeks after an Arizona man died from ...

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