The plague, aka the Black Death, made a reappearance in California last week after it infected a South Lake Tahoe resident.

Without wasting much time, Y. pestis arrived on the western coast of the U.S. in March 1900. Upon coming ashore, it infected ...

It is not just a scourge of the Middle Ages. Plague still exists, though it is rare. Here’s what to look for and how to ...

Health officials in two western states, California and New Mexico, have confirmed recent human cases of plague connected to ...

While medical treatment and sanitary improvements have lessened its impact, the bubonic plague — responsible for the Black Death in the 14th century — could still be alive in your backyard. Early in ...

The plague — aka the Black Death, aka the Great Pestilence — is rarely contracted today, yet it recently infected a South Lake Tahoe resident. But before you put on your 17th century "air-purifying" ...

(CNN) — A person died from pneumonic plague in Arizona last week, the first death from the disease in this region in nearly two decades. This death might bring to mind the bubonic plague, the form of ...

As for Newton, the plague epidemic helped spur on his annus mirabilis, a Latin phrase meaning "wonderful year," in 1666. It was during this year that Newton, then 23 years old, laid the framework for ...

Officials believed that the anonymous individual contracted the plague via a flea bite while camping in the South Lake Tahoe ...

The discovery sheds new light on the Plague of Justinian, which may have killed 50 million people during the sixth century.