Scientists study medieval bubonic plague victims in hopes of preventing future outbreaks. Follow scientists as they track down the earliest known bubonic plague victims in hopes of preventing future ...

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence that led to the devastation of the Black Death in Europe. Researchers from ...

Scientists believe they have finally uncovered what triggered the deadly plague that wiped out over half the medieval population of Europe. Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Leibniz ...

(NEXSTAR) — Northern Arizona recently recorded its first pneumonic plague-related death since 2007. Early last year, Oregon saw its first case of the bubonic plague since 2015. Person-to-person spread ...