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 ...

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 in mind, scientists behind the Oxford/AstraZeneca ...

A New Mexico man died after being hospitalized for bubonic plague in the state’s first death from the disease since 2020, health officials reported. “We extend our deepest sympathy to the ...

Well, believe it or not, the plague is still around. Blame fleas and the rats, mice, chipmunks, and squirrels they infect. Bubonic plague is caused by bacteria that live in fleas. If you get bit ...

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But according to a recent book by Norman Cantor, In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World it Made, that disease also forged a new world dedicated to the proposition that men had ...

Between 1347 and 1351, this outbreak of bubonic plague killed millions of people across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Over the following centuries, plague returned many times ...

Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged his native London in 1624. The plague seems like a disease of a distant century, conjuring up the rat ...

pestis (bubonic plague) and aerosol transmission of the bacterium through coughing by infected individuals (pneumonic plague). These different forms of disease have very different outcomes.