TAIPEI, Taiwan — Chinese public health authorities are taking precautions to prevent a bubonic plague outbreak in a remote northern region after a herder contracted the disease, although experts ...

Animals such as rats can carry the bacterium that causes plague (Alamy/PA) ...

A PERSON has died from plague just 24 hours after they showed up at hospital with symptoms, health officials have said. The ...

Just 24 hours after being admitted to hospital with symptoms of the pneumonic plague - a patient in Arizona tragically passed away from the terrifying illness, which was last seen in the UK in 1918 ...

The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.

FILE - A bubonic plague warning sign is displayed at a parking lot near the Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019, in Commerce City, Colo. Officials in central Oregon ...

A plague outbreak in Madagascar has killed 170 people. Here’s what you need to know about treatment options and chances it will spread.

For one, the Black Death tore through Europe far faster than any modern plague outbreaks. In addition, “rat falls” precede some modern outbreaks, but medieval plague records don’t mention ...

A plague burial pit in East Smithfield, London. The plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis is dated to have first emerged in humans about 5,000 years ago.

But the earliest known bubonic plague outbreak — the Plague of Justinian — took hold in the Mediterranean Basin and lasted from AD 541 to AD 544. Another plague outbreak emerged in China in ...

An ancient bubonic plague outbreak often characterized as a mass killer that felled Eurasian civilizations was actually pretty tame, researchers say. Known as the Justinianic plague, the outbreak ...