Scientists are reporting that they’ve discovered an ancestor of the Black Death in 4,000-year-old sheep remains. The ...

A cat in Oregon has been blamed for infecting its owner with bubonic plague, in a rare modern case of the infection being passed onto humans in the US. Oregon officials confirmed that the infected ...

The bubonic plague is a deadly bacterial infection, caused by Yersinia pestis. In the 14th century, before treatment was available, bubonic plague killed 50 million people in Europe and became ...

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, you can get it, too. You can even get it from a ...

Millions of rats were killed and in 2 months no new cases of plague were reported. Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout Europe and Asia over the past centuries. In the ...

A HUMAN case of bubonic plague in the UK has been confirmed as a false alarm following a mix-up with official data. The horror bug that previously wiped out half of Europe in the Black Death is ...