Farmers in several parts of Australia are being overrun by hoards of mice, with an explosion in population numbers threatening $1 billion worth of crop exports.

Western and South Australia have been impacted by large hordes of mice, damaging crops in the area ...

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 ...

A case of bubonic plague has been reported in Oregon. Although the Black Death devastated Europe in the 1300s, the plague does exist around the world today. Cases of the plague also appear in the ...

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" ...

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 ...

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