On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...

Officials in central Oregon this week reported a case of bubonic plague in a resident who probably got the disease from a sick pet cat. The infected resident and the person's close contacts have ...

A cat in Oregon has been blamed for infecting its owner with bubonic plague, in a rare modern case of the infection being passed onto humans in the US. Oregon officials confirmed that the infected ...

Well, believe it or not, the plague is still around. Blame fleas and the rats, mice, chipmunks, and squirrels they infect. Bubonic plague is caused by bacteria that live in fleas. If you get bit ...

In a new JAMA Dermatology study, scientists at King's College London found that changes in two parts of the genome work ...

In the 1330s, bubonic plague broke out in China and was transported back to Europe by traders. The disease struck swiftly there. The Italian writer Boccaccio said that its victims "ate lunch with ...

In a new study, researchers have found that changes in two parts of the genome work together to influence alopecia risk.

Bites from infected fleas are the most common cause of bubonic plague infection, but the pneumonic variant - where the bacterium is breathed into the lungs - is more dangerous because it is spread ...

It is these buboes that give bubonic plague its name ... rather than the miasma believed to be causing the disease. Plague victims were locked in their houses for 40 days and a red cross was ...

Hot take: college is like preschool. College students must painfully relearn how to make friends and share their things. And, ...