On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...

The pandemic of bubonic plague—later dubbed the Black Death—raged through Europe from 1347 to 1351 and wiped out between one-third and two-thirds of the entire population. But it wasn’t all ...

Bubonic plague is infamous for causing the Black Death, which led to millions of people across Europe dying in the Middle Ages. While it's uncommon to contract bubonic plague in most parts of the ...

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 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 14th-century global outbreak of bubonic plague, known as the Black Death, was the deadliest disease outbreak in recorded history, killing up to half of the European, Asian, and African populations ...

The Plague of Athens killed tens of thousands ... beaked masks Why plague doctors wore those strange beaked masks Black Death discovery offers rare new look at plague catastrophe Black Death ...

In the 1330s, bubonic plague broke out in China and was transported ... In England, the plague took on the name Black Death, because of the characteristic spots that started under the skin as ...

January 1900: Australia’s first case of bubonic plague reported. Bubonic plague, or the ‘Black Death’ as it became known during the pandemic of the 17th century, is one of the most deadly diseases to ...

The Black Death is probably the most famous pandemic in history. Between 1347 and 1351, this outbreak of bubonic plague killed millions of people across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

The Black Death killed as many as 50 million people ... on a new injection which could stop the plague developing. A bubonic plague smear, prepared from a lymph removed from an adenopathic lymph ...

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 ...