In 1665, London faced one of its deadliest disasters—the Great Plague. The bubonic plague, carried by rats and fleas, spread rapidly through the city, killing tens of thousands. China surgeon ...

The Black Death, a mix of bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic plague, wiped out 60% of Europe's population in the 14th century ...

a sign of bubonic plague. The plague had no cure and once a person had caught it, there was very little the doctors could do to treat them. An engraving showing the Great Plague of London, 1665 ...

Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged his native London in 1624 ... the dreaded bubonic plague causes painful swellings (buboes) in the ...

While excavating the plot for a new east-to-west tube station underneath Liverpool Street in London's Shoreditch ... included victims of the Great Plague of 1665. It is the UK's biggest ...

Airing on Mar. 22 and 29 and Apr. 5, the series was prompted by numerous ongoing cases of Indigenous Peoples losing their lives at the hands of law enforcement at an alarming rate — including a ...

A UK health agency has admitted to an error after incorrectly stating that a person had recently contracted bubonic plague. Best known for causing the Black Death scare, the horror bug that previously ...