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

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 ...

From open-air drug use to lewd acts in public parks, East Harlem residents say daily life along Lexington Avenue has become ...

In the Middle Ages, baking, especially the making of bread was more than just a way to create a staple foodstuff to feed the ...

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

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

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, ...

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

SALINA, OKLA. (KTUL) — The Ross Mayes Cemetery, a final resting place for generations of Salina families, is under siege. Wild hogs and a growing population of stray dogs have been damaging gravesites ...