Bubonic plague has caused the deadliest pandemic in history: The Black Death, which killed as many as 50% of affected populations in Western Asia, Africa, and Europe. After that, in the 14th century, ...

A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive for centuries.

Today, the bubonic plague is considered a rare disease, though a small number of cases still emerge in western North America, Africa, Asia, and South America, according to the Cleveland Clinic.

Bubonic plague Sydney: How a city survived the black death in 1900 IN 1900, a Sydney wharfie who had been removing rats from his toilet died of the bubonic plague. A wave of public panic followed.

Trio of outbreaks Plague’s most common form is bubonic plague, which causes painful swelling in lymph nodes and spreads among people through bites from fleas hitchhiking on infected rats.

Plague’s most common form is bubonic plague, which causes painful swelling in lymph nodes and spreads among people through bites from fleas hitchhiking on infected rats. An outbreak of bubonic ...

Caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, the plague exists in three main forms: bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, and septicemic plague. Each type has distinct symptoms, methods of transmission ...

The oldest confirmed case of the illness in an ancient Egyptian mummy has shown the bubonic plague was around thousands of years before the Black Death in Europe ...

PANIC GRIPS SYDNEY Far from being eradicated, the bubonic plague continues to exist around the world with about 3000 human cases reported annually. In the US, there have been 12 deaths since April ...

“Pets can pick up fleas from direct contact with other animals, such as at a dog park, pet store, kennel or the beach,” ...