Septicemic plague occurs if bubonic plague is left untreated, or it can occur directly if the disease enters the bloodstream.

Pneumonic plague is the most serious form of plague that is caused when bacteria spread to the lungs of a patient with ...

Bubonic plague is typically spread by fleas living on animals such as rats, prairie dogs and marmots. If an infected flea ...

A person in Arizona recently died of pneumonic plague—a rare and severe form of the disease. An expert explains how the ...

The skeletons are among more than 20 burials found during the excavation project near the White Tower, which was built by ...

A person in northern Arizona died from bubonic (pneumonic) plague, marking Coconino County's first death from the disease ...

A large-scale study tracing human disease history back 37,000 years has identified harmful bacteria, viruses and parasites ...

The symptoms and causes of the most common types of plagues after a north Arizona resident died within hours of attending a medical facility.

Amid a prairie dog die-off near Flagstaff, one person in Northern Arizona has died from the plague after being hospitalized with severe symptoms.

In a historic breakthrough for global medicine, Israeli researchers have made a ground-breaking development of the world’s ...

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...