Washington State University pathologists have confirmed a rare case of plague in a mule deer found blind and emaciated in ...

Washington State University pathologists confirmed a rare case of plague in a mule deer found blind and emaciated in Idaho.

Testing confirmed the plague was, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, occurs naturally in the western United States and ...

It is now known that the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis has been present in Central and Northern Europe for more than 5,000 years. However, it is still uncertain whether it also led to pandemics ...

In August 1348, Paris faced a terrible disease that spared neither women, children, nobles nor the poor. Within 4 years, the Black Death epidemic would decimate a third of the Parisian population ...