New research by Karen McBride, an accounting professor at the University of Portsmouth, argues that the weekly Bills of ...

Bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death, wiped out an estimated 60 percent of the population of Europe after traders coming from Asia inadvertently introduced it in 1347. Now a study published ...

In modern-day Jordan, a 1500-year old mass grave sheds light on the lives of people affected by the Plague of Justinian.

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The fingertips of this patient's right hand exhibited the signs of what is known as acral gangrene, after having contracted plague Getty Images The bubonic plague, which is caused by a bacterial ...

In the Middle Ages, plague killed millions in Europe, claiming perhaps up to 200 million lives, half the continent’s population. But it's not just a thing of the past. Earlier this week, Pueblo County ...

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Health officials in California identified a positive case of plague in a Lake Tahoe resident. El Dorado County officials said in a release that they have notified the California Department of Health ...

A California man was confirmed to have contracted the plague earlier this week, the fifth case of the infamous disease in the United States this year. The man, a South Lake Tahoe resident, was ...