A case of Yersinia pestis, commonly known as the plague, has been confirmed in a resident of South Lake Tahoe, California.

Centuries after it ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages, plague still circulates on nearly every continent—including the western ...

The plague — aka the Black Death, aka the Great Pestilence — is rarely contracted today, yet it recently infected a South ...

The medieval illness-one of the most deadly in history-ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351 and killed tens of millions of ...

Health officials said he may have been exposed to Yersinia pestis while camping in Rio Arriba County in northern New Mexico.

The case marks Alabama's first since 2002 and involves an unvaccinated child exposed during international travel.

The words 'bubonic plague' are surrounded by an aura of terror: they refer to the Black Death, the epidemic (perhaps pandemic ...