Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the ...

The Black Death was one of the most infamous pandemic events in history. It spread across Asia and Europe, decimating a third of the continent’s population during the Middle Ages. The cause was plague ...

The plague — aka the Black Death, aka the Great Pestilence — is rarely contracted today, yet it recently infected a South Lake Tahoe resident. But before you put on your 17th century "air-purifying" ...

So large was the death toll and so great was the danger of contagion that funerary customs were disrupted. People fled cities ...

Researchers analyzed isotopes and DNA in the teeth of remains found in a mass grave from the Plague of Justinian, which swept ...