Bubonic plague has a case-fatality ratio of 30% to ... caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death. While extremely rare, the ...

It was not only the number of deaths that terrified people ... Today we know that there were two main forms of plague: Bubonic plague produced painful swellings - buboes. This form was mainly ...

Bubonic plague was spread when people were bitten ... The outbreak in London was particularly bad. 68,596 deaths were recorded in the city, though the true figure is likely to be over 100,000 ...

While the name evokes memories of a devastating past, the possibility of bubonic plague has ... the Black Death scare, the plague was responsible for the deaths of over 50 million people ...

Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout ... There had been 121 cases in San Francisco and 5 outside, with 122 deaths. Knowledge, like illness, spreads. In the next few years ...

As it advances, however, the dreaded bubonic plague causes painful swellings (buboes) in the lymph nodes. Septicemic plague infects the bloodstream. Pneumonic plague, which can be passed from ...

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 ...