Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers believe they’ve discovered a “plague pit” mass grave from 1350 outside of Erfurt, Germany. The deserted medieval ...

The largest outbreak of pneumonic plague in the U.S. since 1924 that sickened four people in Colorado in 2014 all started with a sick pit bull, according to a report from the Centers for Disease ...

Rod-shaped specimens of Yersinia pestis, the bacterial cause of plague, find a happy home here in the foregut of a flea. Fleas can transmit the infection to animals and people, who can get pneumonic ...

Researchers have unearthed strong evidence of thousands of Black Death victims in a first-of-its-kind mass grave at a medieval village outside Germany. The find marks the first systematically ...

Researchers believe they’ve discovered a “plague pit” mass grave from 1350 outside of Erfurt, Germany. The deserted medieval village of Neuses was struck hard by the Black Death plague in the 14 th ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Researchers believe they’ve discovered a “plague pit” mass grave from 1350 outside of Erfurt, Germany. The deserted medieval village of Neuses was ...