The word "plague" is often used to refer to any major disease epidemic or pandemic, or even to other undesirable events, such ...

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 ...

The patient had the pneumonic plague, the rarest and deadliest form of the disease. Human cases remain very uncommon in 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 ...

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

The plague is likely to have come from rodents like prairie dogs, whose colonies are known to carry case after case of the disease ...

Beach bacteria warnings plague Fourth of July weekend plans nationwide Health departments in California, New York, Massachusetts, other states close beaches. By Ashley J. DiMella Fox News.

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 ...

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 ...

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — One of the bleakest periods in medieval Europe was the plague pandemic known as the Black Death, which killed at least 25 million people in just five years. But ...