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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...