Oregon resident thought to have caught bubonic plague from their cat - A rare case of the plague has been confirmed in an Oregon resident after their sypmtomatic cat likely infected them ...

Bubonic plague has a case-fatality ratio of 30% to 60% when left untreated, while pneumonic plague, when left untreated, is always fatal, according to WHO. However, a strain of bubonic plague with ...

It's a disease we associate with medieval times, when it was known as the "Black Death", but fears are growing that an outbreak of bubonic plague could be the next global pandemic. With that fear ...

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 ...

Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before ...

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 ...

Genetic testing of people who died in Kyrgyzstan eight years before plague reached Europe reveals an ancient strain of the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Reports of the infection—including one death this ...

In either case, death usually happened within three days. One of the biggest outbreaks of the bubonic plague was the Great Plague of 1665. This was the worst outbreak for over 300 years and ...

Bubonic plague is believed to have arrived in the country on a ship landing on the Dorset coast from Gascony in France. The disease quickly spread throughout the country. The first recorded case ...

A bubonic plague has descended on Glasgow players - Tuipulotu, Cummings, Williamson, Steyn, Hastings. Have I missed some? Probably. All the focus has been on the damage done to Scotland's Six ...