McMaster University researchers who analyzed thousands of documents covering a 300-year span of plague outbreaks in London, England, have estimated that the disease spread four times faster in the 17th century than it had ...
Oct 19, 2020
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How do epedemics come to a stop? Scientists consider genetic mutation of the pathogens as a possible cause.
Sep 25, 2020
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Congo is seeing an upsurge in cases of the plague, as the vast Central African nation also battles outbreaks of COVID-19 and Ebola.
Sep 2, 2020
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The head of a remote Russian region on Thursday said that herders and other residents of two districts on the border with Mongolia should be vaccinated against bubonic plague.
Aug 13, 2020
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Bubonic plague has killed a man in western Mongolia, the country's health ministry said Wednesday, the latest in a handful of cases to emerge there and in neighbouring China this year.
Aug 12, 2020
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A patient in northern China has died from the plague, the second death from the disease in the country's Inner Mongolia region this week.
Aug 8, 2020
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Compounds tested for their potential as antibiotics have demonstrated promising activity against one of the deadliest infectious diseases—tuberculosis (TB).
Jul 30, 2020
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A squirrel in a Colorado has tested positive for bubonic plague, public health officials say.
Jul 14, 2020
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Russian authorities have warned residents of regions near Mongolia against hunting marmots but stressed there was no risk of bubonic plague spreading across the country.
Jul 7, 2020
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While China appears to have reduced coronavirus cases to near zero, other infectious threats remain, with local health authorities announcing a suspected bubonic plague case in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Jul 6, 2020
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