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 ...

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 ...

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