A person in Arizona recently died of pneumonic plague—a rare and severe form of the disease. An expert explains how the ...

The strain responsible for the Black Death, which the study says is thought to have begun in 1346, was newly estimated to have diverged from an ancestral strain between 1214 and 1315 — up to 132 ...

The Black Death, caused by the spread of the yersinia pestis bacteria by rats, was a devastating pandemic that first struck Europe in the mid-1300s, when it's estimated to have killed up to two ...

According to European folklore, if a black cat crosses your path, you've run out of luck. The association between strolling felines and terrible misfortune likely comes from the tradition of the ...

In the end, the Black Death killed up to 50% of people in parts of Europe and the U.K. That's a mortality rate that's nearly 1,000 times larger than what we've had during COVID.

The Black Death. Season 1 Episode 3 | 53m 18s Video has Audio Description, Closed Captions | AD CC. Find out how the Black Death changed Britain. 09/25/2022 | Rating TV-PG. See all videos with ...