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 ...

A scientist who was working on plague-causing bacteria caught the disease despite using weakened strains that were deemed ...

Untreated bubonic plague can turn into the more serious pneumonic plague, which causes rapidly developing pneumonia after bacteria spread to the lungs. Is there a vaccine for the plague?

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 ...

Bubonic plague doesn’t spread from person to person, the CDC said. Other forms of plague include pneumonic, which happens ...

Between 1347 and 1351, this outbreak of bubonic plague killed millions of ... which was stopping the fleas carrying the plague virus from biting and infecting him, as they had done with so many ...

Millions of rats were killed and in 2 months no new cases of plague were reported. Bubonic plague ... their host and may transmit the plague virus directly to man." Paul Louis Simmond put all ...

A 15-year-old boy has died from the bubonic plague in Mongolia ... caught the rare bacterial illness after hunting and eating a marmot, according to the health ministry. “We quarantined the ...

What makes the case unique: Before this case, this weakened strain of plague bacteria had never caused infections in humans. As such, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ...