The DNA of Yersinia pestis bacteria has been found in a Bronze Age sheep, offering a clue to how the plague may have spread ...

A sequel to the incredibly popular mobile game Plague Inc just came out and it's all about rebuilding the world following an apocalypse – aptly named After Inc. It's free-to-play on Android ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from A Plague Tale: Requiem - Protector Pack The Protector Pack gives the player bonus crafting materials, extra cosmetics for Amicia, and an exclusive ...

No matter where you look up the meaning of the word “plague”, it’s never a good thing. It can be confusing, because as a verb, plague means “to cause continual distress”, yet as a noun ...

The plague seems like a disease of a distant century, conjuring up the rat-infested cities of medieval Europe. The word that terrified whole regions of the Earth is now commonly used in its ...

Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before the Black Death, a new study shows. Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that ...

Medical professionals at the time could not correctly explain the cause of the plague. Various causes were put forward. Today we know that there were two main forms of plague: Bubonic plague ...

Public health officials in Colorado have confirmed that a human has tested positive for the plague, a rare but potentially ...

Millions of rats were killed and in 2 months no new cases of plague were reported. Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout Europe and Asia over the past centuries. In the ...