Scotland's final brush with the bubonic plague occurred from 1644 to 1649. Researchers from the University of Aberdeen in ...

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, you can get it, too. You can even get it from a ...

Their research could help explain why the same strain of the plague can reemerge in the same area after years of inactivity ...

A person in Pueblo County, Colorado, about 100 miles south of Denver, has been infected with bubonic plague, local health officials said Monday. Last week, state and local officials identified the ...

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 ...

Plague doctors wore a distinctive costume - the beak mask held dried flowers and reduced the effect of bad smells for the medic A suspected case of bubonic plague has been reported to Chinese ...

The bubonic plague was once the world's most feared disease, but can now be easily treated The World Health Organization (WHO) says it is "carefully monitoring" a case of bubonic plague in China's ...

A history of the bacterial disease of bubonic plague, and of the mortality, distress and panic fear that it caused in the British Isles from The Great Pestilence of 1348 to The Plague of London in ...

PETA plans to protest a screening of Nosferatu over the use of live rats in the film's production and the suggestion that the ...

China has reported a bubonic plague infection — a bacterial infection that is transmitted by fleas. The authorities have issued a warning for plague prevention and control — and directed its ...