A person in Pueblo County, Colorado, about 100 miles south of Denver, has been infected with bubonic plague, local health ...

The bubonic plague is a deadly bacterial infection, caused by Yersinia pestis. In the 14th century, before treatment was available, bubonic plague killed 50 million people in Europe and became ...

They were not the only ones alarmed to see media reports this month about cases of plague—first in humans in Mongolia and then in squirrels in Colorado. A 15-year-old boy in western Mongolia died from ...

pestis (bubonic plague) and aerosol transmission of the bacterium through coughing by infected individuals (pneumonic plague). These different forms of disease have very different outcomes.

It is these buboes that give bubonic plague its name. Around 50 per cent, or half or all those infected would die from bubonic plague. Pneumonic plague affects the lungs. Its main symptoms are ...

answering the question about the risk of the infection emerging on Russian territory. She noted that the bubonic plague detected in China is characteristic of that region yet responds to treatment.