New research suggests that plague was present in the Middle East nearly a century before the Black Death. A new study ...

The water-bound fort on an abandoned artificial island in the Gulf of Finland holds an eerie past. Fort Alexander I, also known as the "Plague Fort" near St Petersburg in Russia was built in 1845 as a ...

A birthday party, a cat on the loose, and a case of Yersinia pestis? Otherwise known as just another day at St. Denis Medical ...