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

Yersinia pestis is the bacteria that was the cause of the plague, the Black Death, a one-horseman apocalypse. In proportion to population, the plague may have been the most lethal catastrophe in ...

Sky History has pre-bought both docs as 2 x 60-minute series from distributor ZDF Studios. Other broadcasters to have ...

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 ...

Slipping vaccination rates in West Texas have led to the state's largest measles outbreak in over 30 years, with more than 500 patients affected as of April 8 and cases spreading to New Mexico and ...

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 ...

It’s not a spoiler to reveal that in a show about the Bubonic Plague, not everyone makes it out alive. Secrets are revealed that change friendships forever. Love is lost and gained. And the ...

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited the epicenter of Texas' still-growing measles outbreak on Sunday, the same day a funeral was held for a second young child ...

Other states with active outbreaks — defined as three or more cases — include New Mexico, Kansas, Ohio and Oklahoma. The virus has been spreading in undervaccinated communities. The multi ...

The current U.S. measles outbreak follows, in some ways, a classic pattern: The virus first found a foothold where childhood vaccination is low—among Mennonites in Texas, in this case—before ...

In response to the ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas, Lubbock Public Health and the Department of State Health Services are issuing updated MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) immunization ...

HERE’S a cheery thought just as spring has sprung. It’s exactly 387 years since the worst plague Worcester has ever suffered came to an end.