Pneumonic plague is both “the least common and most dangerous type of plague,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.

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Florida lacks the hilly topography that supercharged torrential rain into deadly inundations in Central Texas over the July ...

From asteroids the size of football stadiums to nuclear war and man-made pandemics, it can seem as if humankind is in ...

Read on to learn more about your chances of getting a bacterial or viral disease from mouse droppings, and find out how you can take steps to avoid getting sick.

Follow along for developments on the July Fourth floods along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County and Central Texas.

Closely related bacterial species use different strategies to build their cell walls, an international team of scientists led ...

Researchers say about three-quarters of gastric cancer cases worldwide are caused by the common bacteria Helicobacter pylori ...