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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 researchers used over a dozen pre-1348 chronicles ... A prolonged and widespread human outbreak of plague, a pandemic ...

"It was remarkable to discover a domesticated sheep from the Bronze Age that was infected with LNBA plague. This gave us an important clue for how plague could transmit within pastoralist communities ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.