A Deschutes County, Oregon resident was recently diagnosed with bubonic plague, confirmed the county health officer. It’s the first case reported in the state since 2015. The patient, who is ...

The findings, published in the journal Cell Host & Microbe, counter other theories about how plague came back time and again to claim as much as 60 percent of the population of Europe.Previous ...

In septicemic plague, skin and other tissues may turn black and die, especially on the fingers, toes and the nose, according to the CDC. A Colorado high school student died of the plague in early ...

In 1970, World Health Organization researchers estimated that releasing a 50 kg aerosol cloud of plague bacteria over a city of 5 million could cause 150,00o plague cases, with between 80 and ...

Previously identified 14th-century sites with skeletons that showed evidence of the presence of plague were historically documented cemeteries in London.In these instances, Willmott said that ...

After bubonic plague arrived in South Africa in 1899, it moved inland at just 20 kilometres a year, even with steam trains to help. The disease that caused the Black Death stayed in Europe until 1666.

Body lice may have helped spread bubonic plague. A study suggests that body lice are capable of transmitting Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague. June 1, 2024 More than 1 year ago ...

The plague — which in the mid-14th century was also known as the Black Death — devastated swaths of Europe, killing millions in under a decade. One of the puzzles surrounding this ancient ...

A lethal, skin-eating fungus has been rapidly spreading across African wildlife since the turn of the century, scientists warned Wednesday, shedding light on an unnoticed amphibian plague that has ...

A strain of bacteria that causes the plague infected a hunter-gatherer 5,000 years ago. It's the oldest strain of plague ever found, a new study says. The ancient strain evolved for four more ...

The bubonic plague killed an estimated 25 million people in Europe—about one-third of the continent’s population—during a pandemic known as the Black Death in the mid-1300s.