A recent health reporting error in the UK sparked fears of a bubonic plague resurgence, reminiscent of the 'Black Death' that ...

A UK health agency has admitted to an error after incorrectly stating that a person had recently contracted bubonic plague.

A human case of bubonic plague in the UK has been confirmed as a false alarm following a mix-up with official data, but ...

A HUMAN case of bubonic plague in the UK has been confirmed as a false alarm following a mix-up with official data. The horror bug that previously wiped out half of Europe in the Black Death is ...

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Photo: Rat Receiving Station set up as part of the War on Rats led by the U.S. Public Health Service. Millions of rats were killed and in 2 months no new cases of plague were reported. Bubonic ...

Dr. Heather Jarrell, chief medical examiner in New Mexico, provided a robust update on the case Friday afternoon.

While the Spanish Flu pandemic is rightly associated with the early 1900s, Ireland was also faced with a potentially more deadly outbreak of the bubonic plague at the turn of the century.

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