Scientists discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague, marking the first case of the disease outside Eurasia. De Agostini via Getty Images Scientists ...

Although the bubonic plague is most often associated with its deadly impact on 14th century Europe, traces of Yersinia pestis have also been found in skeletons found in modern-day Russia dating as ...

Caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, the bubonic plague has killed hundreds of millions and left a gruesome mark on history. The Black Death, which struck 14th-century Europe, led to the ...

The Black Death — also known as bubonic plague — has killed 200million people worldwide and medics fear a super-strength version may now appear. The team behind the Oxford AstraZeneca ...

Scientists who developed the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine during the Covid pandemic are developing the UK's first bubonic plague amid fears an outbreak of the disease could re-emerge. The plague ...

Well, believe it or not, the plague is still around. Blame fleas and the rats, mice, chipmunks, and squirrels they infect. Bubonic plague is caused by bacteria that live in fleas. If you get bit ...

As it advances, however, the dreaded bubonic plague causes painful swellings (buboes) in the lymph nodes. Septicemic plague infects the bloodstream. Pneumonic plague, which can be passed from ...

An Egyptian mummy, over 3,000 years old, may have died from the bubonic plague, providing the first genetic evidence of the disease outside the Eurasian continent, new research shows. The finding ...