Memories of pandemics are often contentious. They can be disputed, uncomfortable and politically charged. As the COVID-19 ...

For centuries, the plague remained associated with medieval cities and large agricultural societies. But a recent discovery turns everything upside down: in Siberia, hunter-gatherers living in ...

Plague swept through groups of hunter-gatherers in southeastern Siberia 5,500 years ago, leaving dozens dead in its wake—with DNA from Yersinia pestis bacteria still trapped inside their teeth.

Though history's most infamous outbreak of the bubonic plague is the Black Death that killed half of Europe in just seven years during the mid-14th century, this lethal infection has actually been ...

The bubonic plague, which swept across Europe between 1347 and 1353, is estimated to have killed up to one half of the continent's population. The sudden loss of life led to the abandonment of farms, ...