While I was born more than a decade after The Sound of Music hit theaters in 1965, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ...

In some experimental models, LcrV-specific antibodies suffice to protect against pneumonic plague, apparently by promoting phagocytosis and helping phagocytes survive Y. pestis encounters.

The Great War exacted a toll in every corner of the country. It was as if a giant wrecking ball had struck the nation.

Beginning in 1347 and continuing for a full five years, a devastating plague swept Europe, leaving in its wake more than twenty million people dead. This epidemic now known as the "Black Death" was an ...