"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...

The plague spreads to humans or animals through a bite from an infected flea or by contact with an animal sick with the ...

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 ...

pestis infection and assess the risk of transmission to humans. The findings revealed that a small percentage of rodents tested positive for plague, and flea populations exhibited resistance to ...

The researchers noted that these intense meteorological swings were frequently followed, either directly or indirectly, by disasters, including 30 years of plague, 23 years of famine, and nine ...

The 14th-century global outbreak of bubonic plague, known as the Black Death, was the deadliest disease outbreak in recorded history, killing up to half of the European, Asian, and African populations ...

The plague bacterium is carried to humans in the bite of a flea that has first feasted on an infected rodent. Initial symptoms — sudden fever, headache, muscle pain, nausea — are ...

California officials denied—and tried to hide—the first plague epidemic that reached U.S. shores Sarah Holzmann Bubonic plague is one of three types of plague infections, all stemming from the ...

Climate change can exacerbate a full 58 per cent of the infectious diseases that humans come in contact with worldwide, from common waterborne viruses to deadly diseases like plague, our new research ...

In a world of rising fear and paranoia, a play explores the absurdity of human behaviour during a plague outbreak. The ...