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

The bubonic plague — nicknamed the “Black Death” — was brought to the state’s panhandle in 1920, resulting in a local ...

A scientist who was working on plague-causing bacteria caught the disease despite using weakened strains that were deemed ...

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