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 ...

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

New Mexico health officials said Monday it has identified its first human case of the plague in the state this year.

Despite the recent death of a man from the plague in Flagstaff, health experts say the risk of catching the deadly, flea-born ...

A New Mexico man has been diagnosed with plague, marking the state's first human case this year, according to local health ...

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

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

A California resident tested positive for the bubonic plague and is believed to have been bitten by an infected flea while ...

A person in California tested positive for a variant of the bubonic plague, also known as the "Black Death", said health ...

The news: Though the tick-borne Lyme disease is still rare in California, its geographic footprint is expanding. According to ...

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