Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death. While extremely ...

After the devastation of the Great Plague came a wave of prosperity and innovation, not to mention the birth of the middle ...

Also known as the Black Death, the bubonic plague is one of history’s most infamous diseases in history. It is spread when humans are bitten by fleas that piggyback on rodents When the microbes ...

The plague sounds like something out of a history book. But the disease—nicknamed the “Black Death” or “Great Pestilence”—that killed more than 25 million people, about a third of ...

The plague — which in the mid-14th century was ... t have triggered one of the fastest spreading pandemics in human history. Hinnebusch and his colleagues wondered whether human body lice ...