Scientists are reporting that they’ve discovered an ancestor of the Black Death in 4,000-year-old sheep remains. The ...

Uh, Bubonic Plague is uh, carried by uh, fleas uh, on the backs of rodents. Uh, in the Middle Ages, probably black rats were most common and…. Ben: But the fleas were the actual culprits.

The treatment is used for the two most common types of plague: bubonic and pneumonic. “The reason why it caused such widespread death and destruction in the Middle Ages is because we didn’t ha ...

which is where the bubonic plague gets its name. Plague is rare, because thankfully, we have much better ways to control rodents these days. And unlike in the Middle Ages, millions of people don't ...

Bubonic plague is believed to have arrived in the ... Mass graves of victims have been found from the Middle Ages. The way the bodies are carefully laid in side by side suggests bodies were ...

In the wake of one of history's most devastating epidemics of bubonic ... epidemics of plague and cholera that spread through Europe from Egypt and Turkey towards the middle of the 19th century ...

It is these buboes that give bubonic plague its name ... showing a priest conducting a funeral during the Middle Ages. The plague posed significant problems for the Christian Church.

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 ...

During the Bubonic plague in the Middle Ages, some European doctors wore beak-like masks to protect against “miasma”, what they called air pollution linked to rotting matter and bad smells.

A specialist in the social history of religion and religious movements in the European Middle Ages, Professor Little ... epidemiology of the so-called Plague of Justinian, the first historically ...

The bubonic plague is a deadly bacterial infection, caused by Yersinia pestis. In the 14th century, before treatment was available, bubonic plague killed 50 million people in Europe and became ...

By April 1638 officially around 1,550 people, a fifth of the city’s population, had been consumed by the pestilence and buried in plague pits. In fact more died in an outbreak of bubonic plague ...