The first case of a deadly bubonic plague in eight years in the US state of Oregon is believed to have come from a cat. According to health officer Richard Fawcett, the patient got "very sick ...

The bubonic plague killed as many as 50 million people across Europe in the 14th century - 50% of its population - in what's ...

FOR most, mention of the Black Death probably conjures up medieval images of people dying horrifically in the street. Caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, the bubonic plague has killed ...

From 1944 through 1993, 362 cases of human plague were reported in the United States; approximately 90% of these occurred in four western states with endemic disease (Arizona, California ...

Millions of rats were killed and in 2 months no new cases of plague were reported. Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout Europe and Asia over the past centuries. In the ...

and of bacteriological materials of suspected and real cases of plague of human beings and of rats extending over a decade. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

Scientists discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague, marking the first case of the disease outside Eurasia. De Agostini via Getty Images Scientists ...

More than 700 years since the Black Death pandemic, scientists are developing a bubonic plague jab – but why? And should we ...

Although the bubonic plague is most often associated ... researchers believe they have confirmed the first known plague case outside Eurasia: a 3,290-year-old, ancient Egyptian mummy.