The pandemic of bubonic plague—later dubbed the Black Death—raged through Europe from 1347 to 1351 and wiped out between one-third and two-thirds of the entire population. But it wasn’t all ...

The Black Death was a serious disease that killed millions over people around the world over a period of several hundred years. It was named after the colour of the sores that grew under the skin ...

Hello, I’m Ben Wattenberg. The plague that struck Europe in the middle of the fourteenth century wiped out nearly twenty million people. But according to a recent book by Norman Cantor, In the ...

"It was remarkable to discover a domesticated sheep from the Bronze Age that was infected with LNBA plague. This gave us an ...

"… [N]ever send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged ...

Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before the Black Death, a new study shows. Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that ...

I've been caring for patients of this horrible plague these last few months. Many other doctors have fled the city for fear of catching the disease, but it seems it is everywhere. A French doctor ...