The World Health Organization (WHO) released an update today on the plague outbreak in Madagascar: As of 3 October 2017, a total of 194 cases (suspected, probable and confirmed) with 30 deaths (case fatality...

Plague is endemic to Madagascar, where around 400 cases of – mostly bubonic – plague are reported annually. In fact, during the last decade, the island country reported more than 7,000 human plague...

In a follow-up on the plague outbreak in Madagascar, a total of 73 cases (suspected, probable and confirmed) of pneumonic plague, including 17 deaths (case fatality rate 23.3%) have been reported from...

In an update on the plague situation in Madagascar, in the past five weeks 104 cases have been reported, with half (52) cases being pneumonic plague, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) update. Of...

In a follow-up on the plague outbreak in Madagascar, the Ministry of Public Health now reports that the plague epidemic is affecting 17 districts in the country, according to local media (computer translated). The...

In a follow-up to a report last Friday on the pneumonic plague outbreak in Madagascar, the World Health Organization (WHO) offered up an updated case count and additional details surrounding the occurrence...

San Diego County health officials are advising the public of the detection of a plague positive squirrel at the Cedar Grove Campground on Palomar Mountain. A ground squirrel trapped in routine monitoring...

Twenty-two pneumonic plague cases, including five deaths have been reported in Madagascar since August, according to an AFP report via African media. “There have been no deaths since Monday,”...

For the second week in a row, officials in Coconino County, AZ  report Yersinia pestis positive fleas discovered in the county. Last week fleas collected in the Red Lake area, approximately five miles...

Just a few weeks after Apache County health officials reported fleas from prairie dogs burrows tested positive for Yersinia pestis, the agent of plague,  Navajo County Public Health (NCHD) officials...