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HERE’S a cheery thought just as spring has sprung. It’s exactly 387 years since the worst plague Worcester has ever suffered came to an end.

The last significant outbreak of bubonic plague in the UK occurred in Suffolk in 1918, though occasional cases have been suspected since. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates between ...

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The UK recently experienced a bubonic plague scare due to a mistakenly reported human case, bringing to mind the historical devastation of the 'Black Death.' Pexels A wave of concern has swept ...

The Black Death, a bubonic plague pandemic, is estimated to have resulted in the death of nearly 50% of Europe’s 14th century population, making it one of the deadliest disease outbreaks in human ...

The last significant outbreak of bubonic plague in the UK occurred in Suffolk in 1918, though occasional cases have been suspected since.

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 which ...