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 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 ...

The pathologists say plague occurs naturally in the western United States and is found among wild rodents and other animals. KREM-TV Spokane. Plague found in Idaho deer, say WSU pathologists.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University (WSU) pathologists confirmed on Wednesday that a case of plague was found in a mule deer found blind and emaciated in Idaho. The pathologists say ...

The bacterium Yersinia pestis caused the Black Death — killing up to 50 million people in the mid-fourteenth century — as well as an earlier plague across the Mediterranean in the sixth ...

Doctors are wrestling with more than 103,000 cases of lice and scabies and 65,000 cases of skin rashes, according to the World Health Organization.