A HUMAN case of bubonic plague in the UK has been confirmed as a false alarm following a mix-up with official data. The ...

A cat in Oregon has been blamed for infecting its owner with bubonic plague, in a rare modern case of the infection being passed onto humans in the US. Oregon officials confirmed that the infected ...

The bubonic plague is a deadly bacterial infection, caused by Yersinia pestis. In the 14th century, before treatment was available, bubonic plague killed 50 million people in Europe and became ...

A wave of concern has swept across the United Kingdom following a recent health scare that has reignited fears of a potential resurgence of the infamous Black Death. While the name evokes memories of ...

A UK health agency has admitted to an error after incorrectly stating that a person had recently contracted bubonic plague.

Bubonic Plague Cases Are No Cause for Panic Reports of the infection—including one death this month—recently shook up social media. But, unlike COVID-19, plague is a disease that countries have more ...

A French doctor, Guy de Chauliac, has identified two types of the disease. Bubonic, which makes the glands in the neck, armpits and groin swell and ooze pus and blood. It usually kills the patient ...

We now know that there are three types of plague: bubonic plague, pneumonic plague and septicaemic plague. Bubonic plague was spread when people were bitten by fleas, which lived on rats.

HERE’S a cheery thought just as spring has sprung. It’s exactly 387 years since the worst plague Worcester has ever suffered ...

Blame fleas and the rats, mice, chipmunks, and squirrels they infect. Bubonic plague is caused by bacteria that live in fleas. If you get bit, you can get it, too. You can even get it from a ...

As it advances, however, the dreaded bubonic plague causes painful swellings (buboes) in the lymph nodes. Septicemic plague infects the bloodstream. Pneumonic plague, which can be passed from ...

Millions of rats were killed and in 2 months no new cases of plague were reported. Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout Europe and Asia over the past centuries. In the ...