Bubonic plague is still deadly if not treated ... Wear long-sleeve shirts and pants to protect your skin and use a DEET-based bug spray to repel fleas. You should also stay away from any animals ...

Bubonic plague is the most common form of the disease ... The infection could also enter the body through a cut in the skin if the person came in close contact with an infected animal's blood.

The Black Death, also known as the bubonic plague, spread across Europe in the 14th century, wiping out as many as 50 million ...

Bubonic plague, which wreaked havoc during historic ... Plague occurs when infected fleas bite people, or when humans touch ...

In the 1330s, bubonic plague broke out in China and was transported ... because of the characteristic spots that started under the skin as a deep red and turned black. As fleas reappeared each ...

FOR most, mention of the Black Death probably conjures up medieval images of people dying horrifically in the street. Caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, the bubonic plague has killed ...

One of the oldest known cases of the 'Black Death' plague has been uncovered in the ancient DNA of a 3,290-year-old Egyptian mummy. The cvirus Yersinia pestis, or the bubonic plague, is known ...

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 ...

Usually transmitted by fleas hitching a ride on rodents, the bubonic plague attacks the lymphatic system, and initially results in flu-like symptoms a few days after infection. From there, things ...

Australia’s first case of bubonic plague was reported. By 1910, 1371 cases were reported with 535 deaths across the nation.

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 ...