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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Study co-author Kirsten Bos, of Canada's McMaster University, extracted dried blood from the teeth of four 14th-century plague victims exhumed from a London graveyard located under today's Royal Mint.

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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 ...

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 ...