A cat in Oregon has been blamed for infecting its owner with bubonic ... pestis, plague is an infectious disease usually found on small animals and transmitted through fleas or broken skin.

The bubonic plague ... to a region with a higher plague risk, it may help to take precautions against flea bites. Wear long-sleeve shirts and pants to protect your skin and use a DEET-based ...

A person in Pueblo County, Colorado, about 100 miles south of Denver, has been infected with bubonic ... dogs. Plague occurs ...

As it advances, however, the dreaded bubonic plague ... In England, the plague took on the name Black Death, because of the characteristic spots that started under the skin as a deep red and ...

Millions of rats were killed and in 2 months no new cases of plague were reported. Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout Europe and Asia over the past centuries. In the ...

The bubonic plague, which is the most common type of plague, is primarily transmitted through flea bites. To prevent them, Phipps recommends cleaning up around the outside of your home.

It was named after the colour of the sores that grew under the skin ... of the plague. Various causes were put forward. Today we know that there were two main forms of plague: Bubonic plague ...

The bubonic plague has cropped up in the US for the first time in nearly a decade. But, thanks to modern medicine, it is much less deadly than its notorious past. When 'The Great Plague' struck ...