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

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

Officials in northern Arizona are detailing the steps that were taken after a person died from the Plague earlier in July.

An Arizona resident had succumbed to the Black Death, marking the county's first plague death since 2007.  Coconino County ...

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

One person is dead, according to officials with Northern Arizona Healthcare, on the same day they showed up at Flagstaff ...

Swarms of desert locusts are moving across parts of North Africa. With unusually heavy rains in late 2024 supporting growth ...

Charles LaCalle, a resident of Santa Fe’s South Capitol neighborhood, labored hard hoping to rescue the fir tree in his front yard from an aggressive outbreak of the Douglas-fir tussock moth ...

Hall Farm, the World Horse Welfare site in Snetterton, closed in February when a new arrival tested positive for strangles. Strangles is a contagious illness that causes lymph nodes to swell and can ...

Trio of outbreaks Plague’s most common form is bubonic plague, which causes painful swelling in lymph nodes and spreads among people through bites from fleas hitchhiking on infected rats.

An outbreak of bubonic plague from 1347 to 1352 in Europe famously killed about 30% to 50% of the continent’s population.