The word plague can immediately evoke images of the Black Death, one of the deadliest pandemics in human history. But plague is not merely a disease of the past. The infection continues to occur in ...

On October 1, 2026, the inpatient unit at the district hospital in Shelekhov, in Russia’s Irkutsk region, closed because of a suspected “especially dangerous infection.” Media outlets later reported ...

Things seem to be looking up for rats. After more than 500 years, rats may be off the hook for causing the Black Death, the horrible plague that claimed up to 60% of the European population. In ...