Scientists have uncovered a 4,000-year-old ancestor of the Black Death in the remains of a Bronze Age sheep, shedding light ...

"It was remarkable to discover a domesticated sheep from the Bronze Age that was infected with LNBA plague. This gave us an ...

But history also reveals that the aftershocks of pandemics can linger for far longer than five years. Signs suggest our ...

Consumption, phthisis, the white plague—a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least the ...

The DNA of Yersinia pestis bacteria has been found in a Bronze Age sheep, offering a clue to how the plague may have spread ...

In a previous study they showed how multiple contemporary observers were suggesting the new presence of a plague-like disease in western Asia in the second half of the thirteenth century ...

When an epidemic of plague struck prairie dogs within South Dakota’s greater Conata-Badlands ecosystem last spring, U.S. Fish ...

Betsy Arakawa died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare rodent-spread disease with a mortality rate up to 50% in the ...

About 14 months after the 9/11 attacks, my husband and I were admitted to a New York City hospital with a diagnosis of plague.

Hackman, 95, died of cardiovascular disease, with Alzheimer’s disease as a significant contributory factor, about a week after his wife, 65, died of pulmonary syndrome from a relatively rare infection ...