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

The exact details haven’t been released yet, but local health officials have confirmed it’s the first plague death in the ...

Pneumonic plague, a highly contagious and often fatal lung infection caused by Yersinia pestis, recently caused a death in ...

President Donald Trump was swept into office promising to Make America Healthy Again. Now his controversial Health Secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, must contend with the return of the Black Death.

A MAN started growing boils up his arm just hours after catching the bubonic plague from his pet cat. The 73-year-old from Oregon, US, had accidentally cut his finger with a kitchen knife in ...

Just 24 hours after being admitted to hospital with symptoms of the pneumonic plague - a patient in Arizona tragically passed ...

New bacterial mRNA vaccine technology shows promise in fighting plague, and could help address the global threat of ...

To help with these questions about the plague, CNN spoke with wellness expert Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and ...

The disease is rarely found in humans, so much so that only seven people are diagnosed with the severe lung infection annually in the United States.

PHOENIX — A wildlife biologist at Grand Canyon National Park most likely died from the plague contracted while performing a necropsy on a mountain lion that later tested positive for the disease.