One of humanity's oldest diseases is in the news due to a death in Siberia, but could plague once again become a major global threat?

(Richard T. Nowitz/The Image Bank/Getty Images) The textbooks and history lessons tend to treat the Black Death as one devastating wave of pestilence that hit Europe between 1347 and 1353. However, ...

The Black Death swept across Eurasia and North Africa between 1346 and 1353, killing an estimated 30% to 60% of Europe's ...

Biodiversity fell when the Black Death hit Europe, analysis of pollen reveals.

Learn more about Yersinia pestis, the bacteria behind the ‘Black Death,’ which changed over time to cause less virulent, but longer pandemics. A new study in Science suggests that changes in a gene in ...

German scientists, using sophisticated technology and equipment, have concluded the bacteria that caused the Black Death, Yersinia pestis, lay hidden in some unknown host reservoir for centuries, ...

When people hear the word "plague," many may have the image of a "past infectious disease (the Black Death)" that exploded in ...

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An Egyptian mummy reveals that the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years before the Black Death terrorized Europe. Researchers analyzed an Egyptian mummy from a museum in Turin, ...