A person in Arizona recently died of pneumonic plague—a rare and severe form of the disease. An expert explains how the ...

The plague — which in the mid-14th century was also known as the Black Death — devastated swaths of Europe, killing millions in under a decade. One of the puzzles surrounding this ancient ...

Taylor Gaes died of the plague this spring, a day before he would have turned 16. Officials think he was infected from a flea bite on his family's ranch in Larimer County, Colorado.

Plague is caused by Yersinia pestis, a gram-negative coccobacillus. HHS and the Department of Agriculture classify it as a Tier 1 select agent. Y. pestis exists in nature in rodent fleas.

As we have all learned in high school, rats cause outbreaks of the Black Plague. The plague lives in fleas, which live on rats, and when those fleas jump to humans and bite them, you’ve got plague.

A new plague, known as the white plague, has killed 70 -80% of the coral in the Caribbean and is on the loose. Single stranded DNA viruses may be the cause of the destruction.

A microscopic discovery may soon offer a peak into prehistoric pestilence– a possible ancestor of the Black Death has been discovered on a fossilized flea. The flea, who bit it about 20 milli… ...

Acknowledgments of our many physiological changes since the evolution of modern humans have been studied profusely, especially as methods and technology advance. A new study published in Science ...

Fossilized bacteria trapped with a flea from millions of years ago could have something to tell us about the history of the much-feared Black Death. Ancient amber-entombed flea may hold bubonic ...

It’s Black Death-lite! A strain of plague related to the Black Death–just not as deadly– was not spread not by fleas, but likely by contaminated food, body fluids, and even airbor… ...