In 1933, a young heir to the Pakur Raj Estate died after being secretly injected with plague bacteria at a crowded railway station, exposing one of colonial India's most extraordinary criminal ...

Scientists have found the oldest known evidence of the plague, which sparked deadly outbreaks dating back about 5,500 years ...

Though history's most infamous outbreak of the bubonic plague is the Black Death that killed half of Europe in just seven ...

Their work represents the oldest detection of plague outbreaks known to researchers, as well as the first unambiguous evidence that early and genetically different Yersinia pestis strains were deadly ...

There were thoughts that early strains may have been mild, but the discovery that the plague killed prehistoric hunter-gatherers contradicts ​those notions.

Did a major epidemic of plague trigger a prolonged collapse in Europe’s population in late neolithic times – from around ...

A New Mexico woman has died after contracting plague, marking the state’s first human case of the disease in 2026 and prompting health officials to assess whether there is any ongoing risk to the ...

In prehistoric graves of children in Siberia, scientists have found the world’s oldest evidence of a plague outbreak. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

SANTA FE, N.M. – The New Mexico Department of Health reports a Santa Fe County woman died from plague in the state’s first human case of 2026. NMDOH said it has contacted people close to the woman and ...

A warning has been issued following a fatal case of plague being detected in America, as thousands of Brits are currently in the country for the World Cup. The Foreign Office-backed Travel Health Pro ...

This summer marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most bizarre disease outbreaks in the history of microbiology – and one ...