Two deaths and 67 active cases mark Kansas City's worst tuberculosis outbreak in years. Here's what health officials want you ...

Grant. Also known as the "white plague," tuberculosis is a contagious, airborne bacterial disease transmitted through coughing, sneezing, and talking. Even singing or laughing at close range can ...

Officials in central Oregon this week reported a case of bubonic plague in a resident who probably got the disease from a sick pet cat. The infected resident and the person's close contacts have ...

I've been caring for patients of this horrible plague these last few months. Many other doctors have fled the city for fear of catching the disease, but it seems it is everywhere. A French doctor ...

They were also frightened because the disease was very painful and it affected rich and poor people alike. Medical professionals at the time could not correctly explain the cause of the plague.

The plague seems like a disease of a distant century, conjuring up the rat-infested cities of medieval Europe. The word that terrified whole regions of the Earth is now commonly used in its ...