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

The plague sounds like a distant threat, but a small number of serious cases of the disease occur every year. Experts explain ...

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

Centuries after it ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages, plague still circulates on nearly every continent—including the western ...

Plague is a “potentially life-threatening disease” caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, according to the U.S. Centers for ...

Bubonic Plague: A Lak Tahoe area resident has tested positive for ... This is the same centuries-old disease that had killed ...

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 ...

A person in California recently tested positive for plague, according to El Dorado County health officials. The individual ...

Health officials on Monday reported New Mexico’s first human case of plague in a 43-year-old Valencia County man.

A Fresno doc says bubonic plague is rare but can be found in fleas on rodents. Easily treatable with antibiotics, still take ...

A 43-year-old man has tested positive for the plague, leading a top health chief to warn the public over the “severe threat” that the ancient disease brings. The New Mexico patient from Valencia ...