Most people infected with plague during the 1665 outbreak had bubonic plague ... The outbreak in London was particularly bad. 68,596 deaths were recorded in the city, though the true figure ...

a sign of bubonic plague. The plague had no cure and once a person had caught it, there was very little the doctors could do to treat them. An engraving showing the Great Plague of London, 1665 ...

Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged his native London in 1624 ... the dreaded bubonic plague causes painful swellings (buboes) in the ...

The bubonic plague continued to strike in waves over history, with some major outbreaks in the UK, such as the Great Plague of London in 1665 and the last major outbreak in Suffolk in 1918.

While excavating the plot for a new east-to-west tube station underneath Liverpool Street in London's Shoreditch ... included victims of the Great Plague of 1665. It is the UK's biggest ...

LONDON Several teams of scientists around the world have, for some time, been studying the possibility that a genetic mutation perpetuated by the organism responsible for bubonic plague, or the Black ...

The bubonic plague has cropped up in the US for the first time in nearly a decade. But, thanks to modern medicine, it is much less deadly than its notorious past. When 'The Great Plague' struck ...