Researchers recovered the first Yersinia pestis bacteria genome from a Bronze Age animal. It reveals how a plague spread in ...

For the first time, archeologists and anthropologists have identified this ancient plague in an animal: a 4,000-year-old ...

The announcement of the case comes as an Arizona resident died of the plague just last month, while officials warned that a ...

An ancient strain of plague ( Yersinia pestis) has been identified in a 4,000-year-old domesticated sheep. The study provides ...

Around 5,000 years ago, a mysterious form of plague spread throughout Eurasia, only to disappear 2,000 years later.

Oral ciprofloxacin alone was as effective as a regimen combined with an injectable antibiotic for bubonic plague, a ...

Person-to-person spread of the plague hasn’t been seen in the U.S. in more than a century – so what causes the occassional cases?

Plague has been known to affect prairie dogs in the southwest region of the U.S. The dog's owner remained hospitalized for 23 days as he recovered from the potentially deadly disease, the report said.