Plague is an infection caused by the Yersinia pestis bacteria. The zoonotic microorganism is typically found in small mammals and their fleas. The disease isn't something of the past as it has not ...

The idiom “dance till you drop” stands true both figuratively and literally when the French city of Strasbourg witnessed the Dancing Plague. The year was 1518, and just like a plague, this was ominous ...

A scientist who was working on plague-causing bacteria caught the disease despite using weakened strains that were deemed noninfectious. Comments ( 0 ) ( ) When you purchase through links on our ...

But nothing done today can match the response of a small English village, several hundred years ago, when people responded to the spread of the plague in their midst. We visited this little village ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Several Section III high school athletes have acquired cool nicknames that reflect the flash and style with which they play their sport or perhaps something unique about their ...

The UK recently experienced a bubonic plague scare due to a mistakenly reported human case, bringing to mind the historical devastation of the 'Black Death.' Pexels A wave of concern has swept ...

Like any mother, I would gladly contract every plague known to nature if it would spare my children pain. But my subject here is not those desolate and terrible hinterlands of parenthood.

In Douglas County, there are 248 cases still pending the assignment of a public defender. Drew Winkelmaier is the managing editor for The News-Review. He can be reached at [email protected] ...

Georgia police made 22 arrests over the weekend as Tybee Island welcomed partiers to Orange Crush, a controversial Georgia college spring break bash that has previously brought violence and piles ...

Stage newcomer Natalie Haruka Ewe portrays Alice in Plague Mask Players' radical reworking of Lewis Carroll's classic fairytale.(Evan Michael Woods) It was brilliant, the treatment of Kate echoing ...