Septicemic plague doesn’t spread from person to person. The WHO estimates that 30% to 60% of people die of bubonic plague.

Scientists are reporting that they’ve discovered an ancestor of the Black Death in 4,000-year-old sheep remains. The ...

People get flu-like symptoms like a fever, headache, weakness, and swollen lymph nodes. And large lymph nodes are called buboes, which is where the bubonic plague gets its name. Plague is rare ...

In the 1330s, bubonic plague broke out in China and was transported ... killing one-third of Europe's people — 25 million — in five years. Without any medical explanation for the scourge ...

A HUMAN case of bubonic plague in the UK has been confirmed as a false alarm following a mix-up with official data. The horror bug that previously wiped out half of Europe in the Black Death is ...

Between 1347 and 1351, this outbreak of bubonic plague killed millions of people across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Over the following centuries, plague returned many times ...

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 ...

were 40 percent more likely to survive the Black Death, according to the study. Barreiro tells The New York Times that it’s the largest evolutionary advantage for a variant ever identified in people. ...

By April 1638 officially around 1,550 people, a fifth of the city’s population, had been consumed by the pestilence and ...

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, along with Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Friday visited the memorial for ...

Best known for causing the Black Death scare, the plague was responsible for the deaths of over 50 million people throughout Europe in the 14th century. To grasp the scale of its devastation ...

By April 1638 officially around 1,550 people, a fifth of the city’s population, had been consumed by the pestilence and buried in plague pits. In fact more died in an outbreak of bubonic plague ...