Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

China lifts quarantine after man dies of plague

(AP)—A nine-day quarantine imposed on parts of a northern Chinese city where a man died of bubonic plague has been lifted, China's official news agency reported Thursday.

Medical research

Plague alters cell death to kill host

Northwestern Medicine scientists are continuing to unravel the molecular changes that underlie one of the world's deadliest and most infamous respiratory infections.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Researchers find ancient plague DNA in teeth

An international team of scientists has discovered that two of the world's most devastating plagues – the plague of Justinian and the Black Death, each responsible for killing as many as half the people in Europe—were ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Bubonic plague claims 32 lives in Madagascar (Update)

Bubonic plague, which wiped out a third of Europe's population in the Middle Ages, has reared its ugly head in the African island state of Madagascar where 32 people have died in a fresh outbreak of the so-called Black Death ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Plague 'epidemic' kills 39 in Madagascar (Update)

An outbreak of plague even more vicious than the bubonic strain dubbed the black death has killed 39 people in Madagascar, the government said Thursday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

160 quarantined after plague death in Kyrgyzstan (Update)

Four people have been hospitalized and 160 quarantined after a 15-year-old boy who ate marmot meat died of the bubonic plague last week, the Kyrgyz Ministry of Health said Wednesday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Boy dies of bubonic plague in Kyrgyzstan

A teenage boy has died of bubonic plague in Kyrgyzstan, the country's health officials confirmed Monday, adding that an epidemic was not likely.

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