Their research could help explain why the same strain of the plague can reemerge in the same area after years of inactivity and harm the local environment. University of Missouri researchers ...

For thousands of years, a disease repeatedly struck ancient Eurasia, quickly spreading far and wide. The bite of infected fleas that lived on rats passed on the plague in its most infamous form — the ...

A single 4,000-year-old sheep bone, pulled from a windswept burial mound in Central Asia, is forcing scientists to rethink how one of history’s most feared diseases first spread. Instead of leaping ...