Colorado health officials confirmed a rare human case of bubonic plague on Tuesday, urging people to be on the lookout for the lethal bacterial infection that propelled some of the deadliest pandemics ...

A human case of the plague has appeared in Pueblo County, Colorado, according to preliminary test results. It is the first case in the state since a child from La Plata County died in 2021. Southern ...

The only glimpse most have seen of the 35-year-old man accused of stabbing to death a retired physician and attempting to kill the elderly man's wife was a brief court appearance earlier this month on ...

The discovery of plague DNA in a 4,000-year-old sheep bone is rewriting the story of one of humanity’s most feared pathogens, revealing that the disease’s early spread depended on animals long before ...

The bubonic plague is spread by fleas that jump from animals to humans. It was responsible for the Black Death pandemic but is now treatable.

A single 4,000-year-old sheep bone, pulled from a windswept burial mound in Central Asia, is forcing scientists to rethink ...