Researchers recovered the first Yersinia pestis bacteria genome from a Bronze Age animal. It reveals how a plague spread in ...

For the first time, archeologists and anthropologists have identified this ancient plague in an animal: a 4,000-year-old ...

The announcement of the case comes as an Arizona resident died of the plague just last month, while officials warned that a ...

To try to solve the puzzle of how the infection persisted and spread over thousands of years in Eurasia, an international ...

An ancient strain of plague ( Yersinia pestis) has been identified in a 4,000-year-old domesticated sheep. The study provides the first direct evidence linking livestock to the spread of this early ...

Oral ciprofloxacin alone was as effective as a regimen combined with an injectable antibiotic for bubonic plague, a ...

Person-to-person spread of the plague hasn’t been seen in the U.S. in more than a century – so what causes the occassional cases?