A vaccine for the bubonic plague is currently in development as the potential risk of a pandemic remains. To date, there is no cure for the disease, which claimed millions of lives during the 14th ...

Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death. While extremely ...

We currently lack a safe, effective and licensed vaccine for pneumonic plague, which is nearly always fatal and has been weaponized. Yersinia pestis overcomes host defense, in a large part ...

The study's unusual design helped circumvent confounding issues that plague observational research. Vaccination against herpes zoster, or shingles, was tied to significantly less dementia risk ...

Then medical experts developed treatments and vaccines, and the affliction disappeared ... the country of children....It was literally the plague among children. Many families lost three and ...

I loved the piece in Wednesday’s Union-Tribune about the polio vaccine, and about Jonas Salk’s selflessness. Both my husband and I went to school in the 1960s with older students who’d contracted ...

Japan’s supply of the vaccine is not the only thing that has fallen short of demand. Many local governments are having a hard time finding enough nurses to administer the shots. The government ...

The plague is a local phenomenon in some parts of Africa and Asia, with fairly recent outbreaks occurring in Vietnam and India. There is no commercially available vaccine at the moment ...

Nairobi; Kenya: The Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (Kari) has developed a vaccine against a contagious lung infection in livestock, known as bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP) or lung plague.

The worst plague in history was the Black Death ... In 1798, an British doctor, Edward Jenner, developed a vaccine. In 1966, the World Health Organisation began a global vaccination campaign ...