Medicine & TechnologyA new study suggests that the Black Death that ravaged Europe centuries ago shaped human evolution via DNA mutations. Know how this research can be meaningful to mankind. Read here now!
A new case of the rare pneumonic plague was recently detected in Fremont County, Wyoming. The case of plague was a transmission from a cat to a pet owner.
Although bubonic plague is now curable through the use of antibiotics, this was not always the case. Here are three periods in history where the bubonic plague caused pandemics: