The bubonic plague has cropped up in Oregon for the first time in nearly a decade. This time a person likely caught it from their cat, health officials in the central part of the state said last week.

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

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Two cases of the Nipah virus have been detected in India, prompting a raft of screening measures to be enacted in countries across Asia.

Photo: Rat Receiving Station set up as part of the War on Rats led by the U.S. Public Health Service. Millions of rats were killed and in 2 months no new cases of plague were reported. Bubonic plague, ...

Health officials in California identified a positive case of plague in a Lake Tahoe resident. El Dorado County officials said in a release that they have notified the California Department of Health ...

The deadly rare virus has no known cure.

It's an unusually muggy morning at the CSU Environmental Learning Center on the east side of Fort Collins with bird chirping and twittering penetrating the stifling air. A white-tailed doe browses as ...

View post: Body Pulled from Pond Believed to be Rapper's Son In a statement to USA TODAY, health officials said, “(We) recently cared for a patient in the Flagstaff Medical Center Emergency Department ...

The Black Death ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1353, killing millions. Plague outbreaks in Europe then continued until the 19th century. One of the most commonly recited facts about the plague in ...