A volcanic eruption in 1345 may have kicked off a series of events that led to the Black Death sweeping through medieval ...

The study’s authors believe that these grain ships arrived with stowaways: plague-infected fleas. Once in Europe, the fleas ...

Clues contained in tree rings have identified volcanic activity as the "first domino to fall" in a sequence that led to the ...

Climate data and historical accounts suggest that crop failures in the 1340s prompted Italian officials to import grain from ...

A person in Pueblo County, Colorado, about 100 miles south of Denver, has been infected with bubonic plague, local health officials said Monday. Last week, state and local officials identified the ...

Colorado health officials have confirmed a human case of the plague, the rare bacterial infection infamously known for killing tens of millions in 14th century Europe. Today, it's easily treated with ...

Follow scientists as they track down the earliest known bubonic plague victims in hopes of preventing future outbreaks, while historians and scholars explore the societal impact of the plague on ...

Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death.Video above: How did ...

A domestic cat died of the bubonic plague in Colorado just weeks after a man in Arizona died of the same troubling disease, according to authorities. The cat, from Evergreen, was diagnosed with the ...