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

Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death.Video above: How did ...

FLAGSTAFF, AZ. (KPHO/Gray News) - A person in Arizona has died from the plague, health officials confirmed on Friday. The person was recently treated in a Flagstaff emergency room and died the same ...

In this Aug. 10, 2019 file photo, a sign warning of bubonic plague is displayed at a parking lot near the Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge in Commerce City, Colo. The bacteria which causes the ...

New research from the University of Portsmouth reveals that during the Great Plague of 1665, Londoners relied on published death statistics to make critical daily decisions about where to go, whom to ...

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 ...

Few diseases have been with us as long as the plague. We often talk about the deadly disease in the past tense, but the truth is that it never really went away — particularly in rodent populations.

Don’t worry it’s just the plague. So why did authorities in Bayan Nur call for only a third-level alert, rather than a first or second-level alert? As Reuters reported, a third-level alert “forbids ...

Last winter, when the gloom first fell, I saw an old woman, her back bent like a shepherd’s crook, walking watchfully through the freezing rain. She navigated the slush as she crossed the road, in ...