A cat in Oregon has been blamed for infecting its owner with bubonic plague, in a rare modern case of the infection being passed onto humans in the US. Oregon officials confirmed that the infected ...

The bubonic plague has cropped up in the US for the first time in nearly a decade. But, thanks to modern medicine, it is much less deadly than its notorious past. When 'The Great Plague' struck ...

A case of bubonic plague has been confirmed in Colorado, according to local health officials. The disease, which is extremely uncommon in the United States, sees only 5 to 15 cases annually ...

The Black Death is probably the most famous pandemic in history. Between 1347 and 1351, this outbreak of bubonic plague killed millions of people across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

Millions of rats were killed and in 2 months no new cases of plague were reported. Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout Europe and Asia over the past centuries. In the ...

The official noted that the bubonic plague detected in China is characteristic of that region yet responds to treatment MOSCOW, July 9. /TASS/. The spread of the bubonic plague which has been ...