Plague doctors wore a distinctive costume - the beak mask held dried flowers and reduced the effect of bad smells for the medic A suspected case of bubonic plague has been reported to Chinese ...

which is where the bubonic plague gets its name. Plague is rare, because thankfully, we have much better ways to control rodents these days. And unlike in the Middle Ages, millions of people don't ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. A history of the bacterial disease of bubonic plague, and of the mortality, ...

Climate changes and increasing globalisation could bring back the diseases of the Middle Ages, an expert has warned. Vic Simpson of the government's Veterinary Laboratories Agencies told a seminar at ...

Everyone knows about how the bubonic plague claimed the lives of nearly a third of the population of Europe during the Middle Ages. It was the most devastating disease epidemic in the history of ...

Word spreads of a bubonic plague outbreak in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Black Death, the disease that killed as much as half of Europe in the 1300s, is here in the United States. National ...

Millions of rats were killed and in 2 months no new cases of plague were reported. Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout Europe and Asia over the past centuries. In the ...

The bubonic plague was once the world's most feared disease, but can now be easily treated The World Health Organization (WHO) says it is "carefully monitoring" a case of bubonic plague in China's ...