President Donald Trump was swept into office promising to Make America Healthy Again. Now his controversial Health Secretary, ...

Animals such as rats can carry the bacterium that causes plague (Alamy/PA) ...

The word "plague" is often used to refer to any major disease epidemic or pandemic, or even to other undesirable events, such ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Chinese public health authorities are taking precautions to prevent a bubonic plague outbreak in a remote northern region after a herder contracted the disease, although experts ...

An Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague, a rare but highly dangerous lung infection, Coconino County health ...

Most people don’t need to be concerned about the plague based on a recent death in Arizona. But take precautions if you live ...

Amid a prairie dog die-off near Flagstaff, one person in Northern Arizona has died from the plague after being hospitalized ...

A plague outbreak in Madagascar has killed 170 people. Here’s what you need to know about treatment options and chances it will spread.

FILE - A bubonic plague warning sign is displayed at a parking lot near the Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019, in Commerce City, Colo. Officials in central Oregon ...

In many parts of the world, like Europe, the plague is thought to have been eliminated. French scientists find evidence that the stubborn bacteria can trigger new outbreaks even after decades of ...

The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.

Plague outbreaks in London spread four times faster in the 17th century than they did in the 14th century, researchers have estimated after studying troves of wills and death records.