Ancient plagues swept through civilizations like wildfire, transforming the course of human history in their ... ever recorded. The disease devastated the empire's population, including claiming ...

Officials said they were also investigating a second suspected case, according to China's Global Times. The bubonic plague was once the world's most feared disease, but can now be easily treated.

China's population fell last year for the third straight year, its government said Friday, pointing to further demographic challenges for the world's second most populous nation, which is now ...