On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...

There are three types of plague – bubonic, septicemic and pneumonic plague. With the pneumonic form of plague – which means it affects the lungs – there is a risk of direct transmission from ...

The Ten Plagues of Egypt are argued to have been the result of the eruption of Thera or Santorini. Does the evidence really support this?

The overall risk of death for all types of plague in the U.S., according to Mayo Clinic, is around 11%. The most important ...

I've been caring for patients of this horrible plague these last few months ... A French doctor, Guy de Chauliac, has identified two types of the disease. Bubonic, which makes the glands in ...

A 55-year old man from the same region was later diagnosed with bubonic plague after eating wild rabbit meat, the health commission said. Both types of plague are caused by the Yersinia pestis ...

According to the National Post, there are two types of plague. Bubonic plague, which is spread by bites from infected rat fleas, killed a third of Europe's population in the 14th century but can ...