Another rare case of the plague has been confirmed in a human, prompting American health officials to urge owners to protect their pets. An individual contracted the infectious disease, it was ...

The plague has not been completely eradicated, as evidenced by a recent case in the U.S. where a person was confirmed to be infected with the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Photo: Getty Images/Science ...

The plague — aka the Black Death, aka the Great Pestilence — is rarely contracted today, yet it recently infected a South Lake Tahoe resident. But before you put on your 17th century "air-purifying" ...

A sign warns of bubonic plague near the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Commerce City, Colo., in 2019. A California resident recently contracted the plague. (David Zalubowski / ...

A person died from pneumonic plague in Arizona last week, the first death from the disease in this region in nearly two decades. This death might bring to mind the bubonic plague, the form of the ...

A Lake Tahoe area resident has tested positive for plague, California health officials said Tuesday. Officials said they believed the resident was infected after being bitten by an infected flea while ...

Health officials in California identified a positive case of plague in a Lake Tahoe resident. El Dorado County officials said in a release that they have notified the California Department of Health ...

California Department of Public Health (CDPH) said that the person was "recovering at home" under the care of "medical professionals," per a news release from El Dorado County Officials Kyle Fliflet, ...