A HUMAN case of bubonic plague in the UK has been confirmed as a false alarm following a mix-up with official data. The ...

A wave of concern has swept across the United Kingdom following a recent health scare that has reignited fears of a potential ...

A human case of bubonic plague in the UK has been confirmed as a false alarm following a mix-up with official data, but ...

The Black Death was a serious disease that killed millions over people ... at the time could not correctly explain the cause of the plague. Various causes were put forward. Today we know that ...

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 ...

"It was remarkable to discover a domesticated sheep from the Bronze Age that was infected with LNBA plague. This gave us an ...

At the time of the epidemic, most people would have called the disease 'the pestilence' or 'the Great Mortality'. The term 'Black Death' specifically refers to the outbreak of the plague disease ...

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 ...

The 14th-century global outbreak of bubonic plague, known as the Black Death, was the deadliest disease outbreak in recorded history, killing up to half of the European, Asian, and African populations ...

Given Jewish history, it’s vital to avoid anti-Semitic tropes about the spread of disease — and ... with stories of the Black Death, the horrific plague that ravaged Europe from 1348 to ...

The DNA of Yersinia pestis bacteria has been found in a Bronze Age sheep, offering a clue to how the plague may have spread through prehistoric farming communities ...

Reports of the infection—including one death this month—recently shook up social media. But, unlike COVID-19, plague is a disease that countries have more or less got under control. A government ...