And while it’s now very rare, the plague is still cropping up in people’s systems all these centuries later. Earlier this month, a South Lake Tahoe resident tested positive, with a person in Arizona ...

At least three cases of the plague have been reported in the United States, with infections confirmed in New Mexico, ...

Now a third person has tested positive for the rare disease in the US, which is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The discovery in New Mexico comes just weeks after a man was diagnosed in ...

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Explore Singapore’s former Communicable Disease Centre (CDC) at Moulmein Road with a tour, before it closes for renovation.

The plague — aka the Black Death, aka the Great Pestilence — is rarely contracted today, yet it recently infected a South Lake Tahoe, California, resident. But before you put ...

The first reported plague cases in New Mexico have been identified in a human and in a dog. Although there have only been the two cases this year, health officials are ...

Mosquitoes, specifically the female Anopheles species, are among the deadliest creatures on Earth, responsible for ...

The discovery sheds new light on the Plague of Justinian, which may have killed 50 million people during the sixth century.

Chagas disease is deadly, pervasive and more prevalent in the U.S. than you'd think. It's not just brought here by people ...