Animals such as rats can carry the bacterium that causes plague (Alamy/PA) ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Chinese public health authorities are taking precautions to prevent a bubonic plague outbreak in a remote northern region after a herder contracted the disease, although experts ...

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

The patient had the pneumonic plague, the rarest and deadliest form of the disease. Human cases remain very uncommon in the ...

Septicemic plague occurs if bubonic plague is left untreated, or it can occur directly if the disease enters the bloodstream.

An Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague, a rare but highly dangerous lung infection, Coconino County health ...

The bubonic plague has been found in Arizona. But don't freak out about the plague coming back—it's actually been in the U.S. since 1900.

The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.

FILE - A bubonic plague warning sign is displayed at a parking lot near the Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019, in Commerce City, Colo. Officials in central Oregon ...

A plague outbreak in Madagascar has killed 170 people. Here’s what you need to know about treatment options and chances it will spread.

Plague outbreaks in London spread four times faster in the 17th century than they did in the 14th century, researchers have estimated after studying troves of wills and death records.

A plague burial pit in East Smithfield, London. The plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis is dated to have first emerged in humans about 5,000 years ago.