The announcement of the case comes as an Arizona resident died of the plague just last month, while officials warned that a ...

While medical treatment and sanitary improvements have lessened its impact, the bubonic plague — responsible for the Black ...

Researchers recovered the first Yersinia pestis bacteria genome from a Bronze Age animal. It reveals how a plague spread in Eurasia for thousands of years, experts say.

For the first time, archeologists and anthropologists have identified this ancient plague in an animal: a 4,000-year-old ...

Four thousand years ago, a sheep in the Eurasian Steppe carried a lethal bacterium that once swept across continents. The ...

An ancient strain of plague ( Yersinia pestis) has been identified in a 4,000-year-old domesticated sheep. The study provides the first direct evidence linking livestock to the spread of this early ...

A pet cat in Evergreen, Colorado — about 30 miles west of Denver — has died from the plague, health officials said.

Around 5,000 years ago, a mysterious form of plague spread throughout Eurasia, only to disappear 2,000 years later. Known ...