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 ...

An ancient strain of plague ( Yersinia pestis) has been identified in a 4,000-year-old domesticated sheep. The study provides the first direct evidence linking livestock to the spread of this early ...

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

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

On the outback horizon, a locust swarm is brewing. A taskforce has formed to combat the pests before they become a plague in spring.

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