A New Mexico man died after being hospitalized for bubonic plague in the state’s first death from the disease since 2020, health officials reported. “We extend our deepest sympathy to the ...

Bubonic Plague Cases Are No Cause for Panic Reports of the infection—including one death this month—recently shook up social media. But, unlike COVID-19, plague is a disease that countries have more ...

Millions of rats were killed and in 2 months no new cases of plague were reported. Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout Europe and Asia over the past centuries. In the ...

How will the pandemic end? Past outbreaks offer clues. How will the pandemic end? Past outbreaks offer clues. The Plague of Athens killed tens of thousands, but its cause remains a mystery The ...

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A French doctor, Guy de Chauliac, has identified two types of the disease. Bubonic, which makes the glands in the neck, armpits and groin swell and ooze pus and blood. It usually kills the patient ...

We now know that there are three types of plague: bubonic plague, pneumonic plague and septicaemic plague. Bubonic plague was spread when people were bitten by fleas, which lived on rats.

Bubonic plague is most commonly associated with the Middle Ages when the Black Death wiped out as many as 200 million people and 60% of Europe's population between 1347 and 1351.

As it advances, however, the dreaded bubonic plague causes painful swellings (buboes) in the lymph nodes. Septicemic plague infects the bloodstream. Pneumonic plague, which can be passed from ...

Genetic testing of people who died in Kyrgyzstan eight years before plague reached Europe reveals an ancient strain of the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Reports of the infection—including one death this ...

The story of a maid, her master and a wandering minstrel caught in a tragic love triangle. It follows their journey across the plague-ravaged English Countryside in search of a cure for the disease.