"A historical turning point, as well as a vast human tragedy, the Black Death of 1346-53 is unparalleled in human history," said Ole J. Benedictow at History Today. It would take 200 years before ...

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 ...

A case of bubonic plague, responsible for the Black Death, has been detected in a human ... disease that killed up to 50 ...

was likely brought to the Middle East close to a hundred years before it caused the mass mortality events from 1346 to 1351 that we know as the Black Death. Some experts had previously believed ...