A resident of South Lake Tahoe, California, has been diagnosed with the plague, the state’s first human plague infection since 2020.

A California resident has tested positive for the plague, and officials believe they were infected after a flea bite. Emory ...

The plague, aka the Black Death, made a reappearance in California last week after it infected a South Lake Tahoe resident.

The plague—aka the Black Death, aka the Great Pestilence—is rarely contracted today, yet it recently infected a South Lake ...

- A boat thought to carry migrants is escorted by a vessel from the French Gendarmerie Nationale in the English Channel off ...

Trinidad, perched on California’s spectacular northern coastline in Humboldt County, is the beach town that time forgot – in ...

A California resident tested positive for the bubonic plague and is believed to have been bitten by an infected flea while ...

Officials believe that an individual contracted the plague via a flea bite while camping in the South Lake Tahoe area.

A resident of South Lake Tahoe has tested positive for the plague, El Dorado County health officials confirmed Tuesday, ...

Without wasting much time, Y. pestis arrived on the western coast of the U.S. in March 1900. Upon coming ashore, it infected ...

The news: Though the tick-borne Lyme disease is still rare in California, its geographic footprint is expanding. According to ...

It is not just a scourge of the Middle Ages. Plague still exists, though it is rare. Here’s what to look for and how to ...