Global warning: Upsurge of plague in Congo

World human plague cases lowest in 30 years, but WHO warns it remains a particularly “formidable epidemic disease”  

Plague bacteria may be hiding in common soil or water microbes, waiting to emerge

Where do plague bacteria go between outbreaks? New research demonstrates that they can survive and replicate inside amoebae that are widely …

Two cases of pneumonic plague reported in northern China

Chinese officials downplay, say both patients are being treated as rules mandate

Bubonic plague of infamous 'Black Death' era strikes Oregon resident. Is there a climate change link?

When climate subsequently becomes unfavorable, it facilitates collapse of plague-infected rodent populations, forcing their fleas to find …

Looking for a non-Western lens to the Black Death? Try this translation of a work written in Mamluk Egypt

‘Merits of the Plague’ was written 600 years ago by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, a medieval polymath

After bats, do not make marmots into villains: Expert

The rodents have come into focus ever since reports surfaced of a bubonic plague outbreak in Mongolia, China and the Russian Far East

Plague puzzle

Mystifying the plague

The return of a scourge

Inviting the plague

With all its wealth and affluence, Surat remains the least concerned about health and hygiene

Anatomy of the plague

The Black Death is an established phenomenon the world over, so there is no point pillorying India alone

Tiny terrors

Ecological changes have favoured their growth. They cannot be decimated. Then how do you cope with this rodent problem, asks ANAMITRA CHOUDHURY

Plague case causes alarm

French researchers have identified the first case of bubonic plague resistant to antibiotics

Plague kills 40 in Africa’s Madagascar, El Nino blamed

High level of resistance to deltamethrin, an insecticide used to control fleas, has complicated the problem

Plaguing the question

Plagued

It's time plague sheds its horror image

Book Excerpt: How the plague affected colonial Bombay in 1896

‘The Moral Contagion’ by Julia Hauser and Sarnath Banerjee describes in vivid detail how the pestilence shook up the port city

The empire strikes back

Despite the progress in medical science, many old and new diseases seem to dodge us. Microbes which we bade farewell to, are raising their ugly …

"India's health infrastructure was never something to be pround of"

The panic created when the plague rippled out from Surat and threatened other parts of the country exposed India's complete lack of resources for …

Rehabilitation measures denounced

Unravelling the Bombay plague

Room 000: Narratives Of The Bombay Plague is the story of the plague that killed thousands in Mumbai in the late 1890s. Very little was known …

Slippery bacillus

Despite desperate combing operations, the plague bacillus is playing hide-and-seek with doctors

Polemics over a pest

A controversy rages over whether the Surat plague bacillus was a secret hardsell by a Kazakh chemical firm

Will plague return?

A plague bacterium that has developed resistance to several antibiotics may pose a serious threat to human health

Plagueing policies