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 ...

Know how the Black Death plague affects the human body with a detailed simulation. Learn the symptoms, risks, and what to ...

A California resident tests positive for a variant of the bubonic plague after a flea bite while camping. The plague can lead ...

A warning has been issued by health officials to take care when outdoors in South Lake Tahoe, California, as a man has tested ...

Plague is caused by bacteria carried by fleas that bite infected rodents. It's naturally occurring in the western U.S.

A person has tested positive for ‘Black Death’ in California, just over a month after an Arizona resident died from pneumonic ...

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 ...

By taking the now-powdery black pulp out of the teeth of plague victims buried in London's East Smithfield Cemetery —a cemetery established solely to handle theonslaught of the Black Death once ...

The bacterium blamed for the Black Death that wiped out more than a third of Europe's population within about five years of the 14th century looks an awful lot like the modern versions of the ...