Most people infected with plague during the 1665 outbreak had bubonic plague ... The outbreak in London was particularly bad. 68,596 deaths were recorded in the city, though the true figure ...

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 ...

Likely originating in Germany around the 18th century, the classic children's rhyme "Ring Around the Rosie" first appeared in English in 1881 when Kate Greenaway included it in her book "Mother Goose ...

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 ...

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 ...

The bubonic plague continued to strike in waves over history, with some major outbreaks in the UK, such as the Great Plague of London in 1665 and the last major outbreak in Suffolk in 1918.

A HUMAN case of bubonic plague in the UK has been confirmed as a false alarm following a mix-up with official data. The horror bug that previously wiped out half of Europe in the Black Death is ...