Antibiotics help at first, but then activate virus genes engineered into the bacterium. That virus attacks your nervous ...

Most people have only heard of the plague as the disease that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages. But it's still around today, ...

Illustration of Y. pestis, the bacteria that causes the plague. (KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GETTY IMAGES) When people ...

UTMB researchers developed plague vaccines that protected mice without interferon-gamma, challenging a long-held view of ...

The plague has killed more people than World War II. The bacterium Yersinia pestis (Yp), which causes plague, has triggered ...

The outbreak of plague in 1346-53, known as the Black Death, was one of the worst pandemics in recorded history. Between a third and two thirds of the medieval European population are thought to have ...

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Last winter, when the gloom first fell, I saw an old woman, her back bent like a shepherd’s crook, walking watchfully through the freezing rain. She navigated the slush as she crossed the road, in ...

Plague doctors, or at least images of plague doctors, are having a bit of a cultural moment again, roughly 300 years after their actual heyday. They’ve become popular motifs for stickers, pins, masks, ...