These blood-sucking insects are capable of transmitting the bacteria that caused the Black Death, according to a laboratory ...

Blood-sucking, parasitic human body lice may be more effective at transmitting the bacterium that causes bubonic plague than ...

“The bubonic plague hit San Francisco in the early 1900s,” said Dr. Jian Zhang, CEO of Chinese Hospital, referring to the ...

Blame fleas and the rats, mice, chipmunks, and squirrels they infect. Bubonic plague is caused by bacteria that live in fleas. If you get bit, you can get it, too. You can even get it from a ...

You might have seen the lines stretching outside the new Handel’s ice cream walk-up windows, as the popular Midwest brand has ...

The company recently opened its first Midlands shop in Forest Acres. Now it is moving ahead with plans for another spot in a ...

A confirmed case of human bubonic plague in Oregon raised fears over a resurgence of the infamous contagion that wiped out ...

How will the pandemic end? Past outbreaks offer clues. How will the pandemic end? Past outbreaks offer clues. The Plague of Athens killed tens of thousands, but its cause remains a mystery The ...

Black rats of the type that spread bubonic plague may have triggered one of the biggest outbreaks of the deadly Sars epidemic, it has been claimed. Sars (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ...

Word spreads of a bubonic plague outbreak in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Black Death, the disease that killed as much as half of Europe in the 1300s, is here in the United States. National ...

A history of the bacterial disease of bubonic plague, and of the mortality, distress and panic fear that it caused in the British Isles from The Great Pestilence of 1348 to The Plague of London in ...