A person in Arizona recently died of pneumonic plague—a rare and severe form of the disease. An expert explains how the ...

Septicemic plague occurs if bubonic plague is left untreated, or it can occur directly if the disease enters the bloodstream.

The patient had the pneumonic plague, the rarest and deadliest form of the disease. Human cases remain very uncommon in the ...

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.

Scientists from Tel Aviv University and the Israel Institute of Biological Research say their vaccine uses lipid ...

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

A person in rural Arizona died after falling ill with a rare case of pneumonic plague, health officials confirmed July 11.

What was hygiene like during the Black Death? In the 14th century, the bubonic plague swept through Europe, wiping out as ...