Released a year before Game of Thrones originally aired, Sean Bean nevertheless remains the spitting image of Ned Stark as he ...

Best known for causing the Black Death scare, the horror bug that previously ... even cute-looking wild animals should be kept at arm's length. The disease is spread by fleas." Bubonic plague is a ...

The Black Death, a mix of bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic plague, wiped out 60% of Europe's population in the 14th century ...

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

Life in 14th-century Cambridge, England, couldn’t have been easy. As the Black Death faded, it left behind a devastated ...

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Millennia later, the apparent descendants of this pathogen would unleash vicious pandemics that claimed millions of human lives, including the 6th-century Justinian plague and the 14th-century Black ...

Here's a look at the disease in the U.S. by the numbers ... Meanwhile, the age-adjusted death rate currently sits at 0.1 per 100,000 people, which has remained relatively consistent since spring ...

With chronic kidney disease projected to be the fifth leading cause of death by 2040, Nephrologist Dr. Adrian Sawyer is calling on the government and health officials to lead the charge in optimizing ...

Prince Frederik of Luxembourg died from a genetic disease called PolG, but experts hope his passing could bring more awareness to the rare condition that impacted his life. Prince Frederik, 22 ...

Of his son's death, Prince Robert wrote: "Frederik fought his disease valiantly until the very end. His indomitable lust for life propelled him through the hardest of physical and mental challenges." ...