plague

I It is the morning of July 1, 1958, and a bleary-eyed Chairman Mao Zedong is rising from his double bed, having passed a restless night in his official residence at the Zhongnanhai’s Library of Chrysanthemum Fragrance. The…

Mackenzie Rose Peacock was losing power at her Orono apartment so frequently and without warning that she had multiple contingency plans about where to get internet access to do school work or take a hot shower before class.…

A bubonic plague outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has seen several dozen people succumb to the long-feared disease, which caused Europe’s Black Death pandemic in the 14th century. Multiple cases of the plague…

Purple-colored Yersinia pestis bacteria, the bacteria that causes the plague, seen on the spines of a flea. (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases via CNN Wire) Health officials have…