When cases of plague pop up in the US, it can feel straight up medieval. It's treatable, but how and why does it persist?

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Scientists discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague, marking the first case of the disease outside Eurasia. De Agostini via Getty Images Scientists have ...

An international team of researchers, including U of A archaeologist Taylor Hermes, has found the first evidence of a Bronze Age plague infection in a non-human host. The discovery provides a missing ...

At least 20 people in a remote village in Madagascar died amid an outbreak of bubonic plague last week. In October, the International Committee of the Red Cross warned that the island-nation was at ...

Their research could help explain why the same strain of the plague can reemerge in the same area after years of inactivity and harm the local environment. University of Missouri researchers ...

The bubonic plague is a danger to humans and larger ecosystems. It can decimate prairie dog populations, harming the already endangered black-footed ferret that relies on them as a food source.