A pet owner has caught a rare case of the bubonic plague, health officials in central Oregon say, and it's believed they may ...

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 ...

and of bacteriological materials of suspected and real cases of plague of human beings and of rats extending over a decade. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

But with recent cases popping up in parts of the world ... they had made progress on an injection that could prevent bubonic plague from developing. A trial of their vaccine on 40 healthy adults ...

From 1,000 to 3,000 cases of plague are reported each year ... As it advances, however, the dreaded bubonic plague causes painful swellings (buboes) in the lymph nodes. Septicemic plague infects ...

The Black Death — also known as bubonic plague — has killed 200million people worldwide and medics fear a super-strength version may now appear. The team behind the Oxford AstraZeneca ...

Honolulu officials thought fire could stop the bubonic plague from spreading through the growing city. But high winds ...

Well, believe it or not, the plague is still around. 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 ...

Bites from infected fleas are the most common cause of bubonic plague infection ... Between 2010 and 2015 there were 3,248 cases worldwide, leading to 584 deaths - a fatality rate of 18% ...

it is fatal in 30% to 60% of cases, according to the World Health Organization. There are 3 different kinds of plague, depending on the type of infection: bubonic, septicaemic, and pneumonic.