The team from Tel Aviv University developed a vaccine to combat the bacterium that causes the black plague, using the same system as with the COVID-19 vaccines.

A patient died of bubonic plague just hours after checking into the Flagstaff Medical Center in northern Arizona.

The bubonic plague is caused by Yersinia pestis, a bacterium that was likely first introduced in North America around 1900 from rats on ships coming from South Asia, according to Timothy Brewer, M ...

A resident of Northern Arizona's Coconino County succumbed to pneumonic plague, marking the first such death since 2007.

The plague — which in the mid-14th century was also known as the Black Death — devastated swaths of Europe, killing millions in under a decade. One of the puzzles surrounding this ancient ...

Bubonic plague causes painfully swollen lymph nodes that are most commonly found in the groin, armpit and neck, called buboes. It will often advance and turn into the other two forms of plague if ...

Oregon just had their first case of bubonic plague in years—yes, the same bubonic plague responsible for the historical Black Death pandemics. But don’t panic just yet. Plague is more common ...

A confirmed case of human bubonic plague in Oregon raised fears over a resurgence of the infamous contagion that wiped out millions in the Middle Ages. But officials say there's no cause for alarm ...

The bubonic plague usually is caused by a bite from an infected flea. The bacteria multiply in a lymph node near where the bacteria entered the human body, the CDC said.

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 ...

However, in today's world, the once-deadly Bubonic Plague is a remnant of the past, with a couple of thousand cases popping up around the world every year. Between 2010 and 2015, ...