A team tested the ancient mummy dating back more than 3,000 years and discovered the bubonic plague in his bone tissue and ...

A person in Pueblo County, Colorado, about 100 miles south of Denver, has been infected with bubonic plague, local health ...

We've read about the horrors of the bubonic plague in history lessons, but did you know that even the plague technically ...

Word spreads of a bubonic plague outbreak in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Black Death, the disease that killed as much as half of Europe in the 1300s, is here in the United States. National ...

Plague doctors wore a distinctive costume - the beak mask held dried flowers and reduced the effect of bad smells for the medic A suspected case of bubonic ... any outbreaks today are thankfully ...

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 ...