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

Is the bubonic plague still around? More on: CDC 5 day isolation, measles transmission, Oregon bubonic plague case, plus Alaskapox virus. Out guest is AMA's Vice President of Science, Medicine and ...

Health officials in Colorado are investigating a human case of the bubonic plague confirmed in a person in Pueblo County. The CDC noted that “a plague vaccine is no longer available in the ...

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 ...

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

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% ...

while 106 are bubonic, 1 is septicemic, and 3 are unspecified. The overall case-fatality rate is 11.6%. Illnesses have been reported from 27 of Madagascar's 114 districts, up from 20 in the WHO's Oct ...