Throughout history, the deadliest disease outbreaks and pandemics have decimated societies, killing millions. From the Black ...

The plague seems like a disease of a distant century ... of a flea that has first feasted on an infected rodent. Initial symptoms — sudden fever, headache, muscle pain, nausea — are ...

So now it’s a very treatable disease. It shouldn’t create the fear that people had in the Middle Ages of the Black Death,” he said. “If anyone develops symptoms consistent with the plague ...

Symptoms start one to eight weeks after exposure and initially can include fatigue, fever and muscle aches, according to the ...

They were also frightened because the disease was very painful and it affected rich and poor people alike. Medical professionals at the time could not correctly explain the cause of the plague.

Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have ... close examination of the symptoms described suggested that this was indeed the disease now known to be caused ...

Hackman, 95, died of cardiovascular disease, with Alzheimer’s disease as a significant contributory factor, about a week after his wife, 65, died of pulmonary syndrome from a relatively rare infection ...

Bird flu could pose a threat to Americans as cases slowly rise and spread across the U.S. Dr. Arif Sarwari, infectious ...