A PERSON has died from plague just 24 hours after they showed up at hospital with symptoms, health officials have said. The victim was rushed to Flagstaff Medical Center in Arizona, US, showing ...

Plague, once known as the ‘Black Death’ that nearly wiped out half of Europe's population, is now rare in humans and ...

However, the spectre of the Black Death endured throughout the centuries that followed, with superstition, fear and panic across generations. By the 20th century, the Black Death had become the model ...

An excavation project is being carried out near the White Tower to prepare the chapel for a new lift - but a mass grave may ...

Researchers spent five years studying bones from medieval Cambridge, England, to see what life was like for a cross section of the city’s survivors of the Black Death.

The Black Death caused so many deaths that, even today, genetic diversity is lower in the UK than it was in the 11th century, says New Scientist.

History Dept. What the 14th Century Plague Tells Us About How Covid Will Change Politics Regions hit hardest by the Black Death in Europe looked more democratic centuries later.

The Black Death, which plagued Europe, West Asia and North Africa from 1347-1352, is the most infamous pandemic in history. Historians have estimated that up to 50 percent of Europe’s population died ...