Plague doctors wore beak-like masks ... the returning traders had bought something bad within them from the Black Sea. It started with their having a continuous dry cough that wouldn’t stop.

In 1348 the Black Death arrived in England and by 1349 it ... Medical professionals at the time could not correctly explain the cause of the plague. Various causes were put forward.

The plague that killed a quarter of the people of Europe in the years 1348–1350 is still studied to shed light on human behavior under conditions of universal catastrophe ...

The Black Death, believed to be bubonic plague, possibly mixed in with anthrax, killed between thirty and fifty percent of Europe’s population in the years 1348 and 1349. Norman Cantor writes ...

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 peaked in Europe between 1348 and 1350, wiping out about 60 percent of London ... This latest finding could help researchers understand the evolution of plague bacteria and “is useful ...

The plague first hit British shores in 1348 after being spread to Europe by fleas on rats aboard ships from Asia. Scientists estimate that between a third and a half of Britain’s population were ...

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 ...

Bubonic plague, or the ‘Black Death’ as it became known during the pandemic of the ... Frequent smaller outbreaks occurred across Europe until 750 when the disease disappeared. In 1348, however, ...

Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged his native London in 1624. The plague seems like a disease of a distant century, conjuring up the rat ...