On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...

Figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that incidents of bubonic plague in the United States are infrequent, with an average of seven human cases reported annually.

The disease—once known as the “black death”—killed at least 50 million people in medieval Europe, but now, only about seven people get infected in the United States each year. Cases of ...

Black Death, the disease that killed as much as half of Europe in the 1300s, is here in the United States. National, local, and even neighborhood newspapers jump on the story. But weirdly ...

Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged his native ... 10 to 15 of them in the western United States. The plague bacterium is carried to ...

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