Plague is a potentially lethal infectious disease that is caused by bacteria called Yersinia pestis that live in some animals - mainly rodents - and their fleas. Bubonic plague is the most common ...

Officials in central Oregon this week reported a case of bubonic plague in a resident who probably got the disease from a sick pet cat. The infected resident and the person's close contacts have ...

China has reported a bubonic plague infection — a bacterial ... eating animals that may be carrying the plague. Plague is an infectious disease caused by a bacteria Yersinia pestis, present ...

In the 1330s, bubonic plague broke out in China and was transported back to Europe by traders. The disease struck swiftly there. The Italian writer Boccaccio said that its victims "ate lunch with ...

The state is grappling with the detection of avian flu and its potential jump from species to species. And about 125 years ...

Well, believe it or not, the plague is still around. Blame fleas and the rats, mice, chipmunks, and squirrels they infect. Bubonic plague is caused by bacteria that live in fleas. If you get bit ...

Fleas carry diseases including the plague ... It is these buboes that give bubonic plague its name. Around 50 per cent, or half or all those infected would die from bubonic plague.

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. A history of the bacterial disease of bubonic plague, and of the mortality, ...

YOKOHAMA, Oct. 18. -- The efficacy of the measures taken to stamp out the bubonic plague, which was discovered in this port on the 6th inst., is demonstrated by the fact that up to date only five ...