Black Death, the disease that killed as much as half of Europe in the 1300s, is here in the United States. National, local, and even neighborhood newspapers jump on the story. But weirdly ...

A scene this week from cities in Europe and the United States tiptoeing out of ... was not only transmitted by fleas on rats, like bubonic plague, but also that it was spreading from one human ...

Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged his native ... 10 to 15 of them in the western United States. The plague bacterium is carried to ...