THE son of a man who died from a brain-swelling Nipah virus that inspired the Hollywood blockbuster Contagion has allegedly ...

The word "plague" is often used to refer to any major disease epidemic or pandemic, or even to other undesirable events, such ...

A new review published in JAMA Network Open describes how often ethics are incorporated in infectious diseases international ...

IDSA and HIVMA urged lawmakers to also preserve crucial infrastructure and other programs that support PEPFAR's ...

Just 24 hours after being admitted to hospital with symptoms of the pneumonic plague - a patient in Arizona tragically passed away from the terrifying illness, which was last seen in the UK in 1918 ...

Animals such as rats can carry the bacterium that causes plague (Alamy/PA) ...

Pneumonic plague, a highly contagious and often fatal lung infection caused by Yersinia pestis, recently caused a death in ...

New bacterial mRNA vaccine technology shows promise in fighting plague, and could help address the global threat of ...

One of Australia's biggest cities is facing a major crisis.

The patient had the pneumonic plague, the rarest and deadliest form of the disease. Human cases remain very uncommon in the ...

Arizona reports its first death from the pneumonic plague since 2007, with health officials emphasizing the disease's rarity ...