The Black Death is the most potent plague of them ... are in danger of spreading to your region. The ordinary map will also have plague-afflicted regions highlighted in an ominous blood-red ...

but it’s believed that the pneumonic form was largely responsible for the rapid spread of plague during the Black Death pandemic that wiped out as much as half of Europe’s population centuries ...

The Black Death was a serious ... Others think that pneumonic plague was most serious because of the way it spread rapidly from human to human. In either case, death usually happened within ...

But according to a recent book by Norman Cantor, In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World it Made, that disease also forged a new world dedicated to the proposition that men had ...

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 ...

been falsely blamed for spreading plague during the Black Death? "We have good mortality data from outbreaks in nine cities in Europe," Prof Nils Stenseth, from the University of Oslo, told BBC News.

Scientists say they have finally pinpointed the origins of the historic Black Death plague, according to a new study. The Black Death was a pandemic caused by the bubonic plague that killed an ...

Plague doctors wore a distinctive costume ... Historically, it has also been called the Black Death, in reference to the gangrenous blackening and death of body parts, such as the fingers ...