On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...

Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before ...

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

The overall risk of death for all types of plague in the U.S., according to Mayo Clinic, is around 11%. The most important ...

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 ...

But what people witnessed, there was a relationship in that the first uh, four or five days of Bubonic Plague and the symptoms of anthrax are very similar. Ben: Let’s uh, have you march us ...

Pneumonic plague affects the lungs. Its main symptoms are fever, aches and coughing, including coughing blood. It is caused by breathing in bacteria coughed out by an infected person, or spread to ...

Plague symptoms can manifest in a few ways. Bubonic plague — the kind contracted by the Oregon resident — happens when the plague bacteria gets into the lymph nodes. It can cause fever ...