A cat in Oregon has been blamed for infecting its owner with bubonic plague, in a rare modern case of the infection being passed onto humans in the US. Oregon officials confirmed that the infected ...

Experts believe that the black plague killed as much as 60% of the entire EMEA population. These figures are unheard of in modern outbreaks. The bubonic plague still kills between 30-60% of those ...

The bubonic plague, which is the most common type of plague, is primarily transmitted through flea bites. To prevent them, Phipps recommends cleaning up around the outside of your home.

Between 1347 and 1351, this outbreak of bubonic plague killed ... they uncovered the plague’s origins – uncovering skeletons buried in modern-day Kyrgyzstan that had been infected by the ...

The bubonic plague has cropped up in the US for the first time in nearly a decade. But, thanks to modern medicine, it is much less deadly than its notorious past. When 'The Great Plague' struck ...

Skip to content viewer section. Myron J. Echenberg, “City of the Plague: Bombay, 1896,” in Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894–1901 (New York: New York University Press, 2007 ...

By April 1638 officially around 1,550 people, a fifth of the city’s population, had been consumed by the pestilence and buried in plague pits. In fact more died in an outbreak of bubonic plague ...