FOR most, mention of the Black Death probably conjures up medieval images of people dying horrifically in the street. Caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, the bubonic plague has killed ...

The Black Death was a serious disease that killed ... Today we know that there were two main forms of plague: Bubonic plague produced painful swellings - buboes. This form was mainly spread ...

The Black Death, a deadly bubonic plague pandemic in the 14th century, caused widespread havoc, claiming around 200 million lives. As the disease spread, entire towns and villages were wiped out ...

Oxford team reports hopeful results in trials as military experts say UK should stock supplies of Black Death inoculation ...

The Black Death — also known as bubonic plague — has killed 200million people worldwide and medics fear a super-strength version may now appear. The team behind the Oxford AstraZeneca ...

The topic before the house, In the Wake of the Plague, this week on Think Tank. The Black Death, believed to be bubonic plague, possibly mixed in with anthrax, killed between thirty and fifty ...

The disease quickly spread throughout the country. The first recorded case of the Black Death in England was in June 1348. Bubonic plague was spread by rats, which were commonly found in homes ...

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Scientists behind the Oxford Covid jab are developing a bubonic plague vaccine amid fears a superbug strain of the Black Death could emerge. There is no vaccine in the UK for the plague ...

LONDON Several teams of scientists around the world have, for some time, been studying the possibility that a genetic mutation perpetuated by the organism responsible for bubonic plague, or the Black ...