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

Rats have long been associated with and blamed for the spread of plague, a disease that has killed over 200 million people throughout the past two millennia. The Black Death, a bubonic plague pandemic ...

Likely originating in Germany around the 18th century, the classic children's rhyme "Ring Around the Rosie" first appeared in ...

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 ...

Recommended Videos The bubonic plague — nicknamed the “Black Death ... out of whom seven people died. The Florida Department of Health lists this as the last reported plague case ...

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 which ...

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 ...

"Usually, it's because people don't realise that even cute-looking wild animals should be kept at arm's length. The disease is spread by fleas." Bubonic plague is a bacterial infection caused by ...

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 ...