Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A biologist leads a team for a prairie dog project to combat fleas with oral medication. Prairie dogs and other rodents have kept ...

Colorado health officials are investigating plague activity across a handful of counties, with plague-related causes behind the death of a child. The Colorado Department of Public Health and ...

Health officials have confirmed another case of the plague in New Mexico. An infected dog brings to six the number of animals that have been diagnosed with the disease. All but one were from Santa Fe ...

EVERGREEN, Colo. — A domestic cat in Evergreen tested positive for bubonic plague last week, according to Jefferson County Public Health. The health department said the cat stays near Bergen Mountain ...

LA PLATA COUNTY, Colo. — Officials are investigating a large die-off of prairie dogs in southern Colorado and suspect that plague is to blame, the La Plata County Public Health Department said on ...

A domestic animal in Larimer County’s Red Feather Lakes area has tested positive for the bubonic plague, health officials announced Thursday. The Larimer County Department of Health and Environment ...

Plague doesn't just loom large in history—it still exists today. California health officials recently confirmed that a South Lake Tahoe resident has tested positive for plague, likely after being ...