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

A class of antibiotics called fluoroquinolones, developed in the 1940s, are effective in treating the plague today. Bubonic plague kills 30-60 per cent of those infected, while pneumonic and ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Scientists have warned that an antibiotic-resistant strain of the bubonic plague could emerge and are developing a vaccine for the disease that has killed as many as 200 million people throughout ...

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 ...

Scientist who introduced the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine during the covid pandemic are now working on the UK's first bubonic plague jab, as fears for the next deadly outbreak rise. The Black Death ...

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 ...