The latest tranche of records from the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI) has 175,000 new documents lost in a fire at ...

Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but potentially more transmissible ...

A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive for centuries.

What was hygiene like during the Black Death? In the 14th century, the bubonic plague swept through Europe, wiping out as ...

Today, the bubonic plague is considered a rare disease, though a small number of cases still emerge in western North America, Africa, Asia, and South America, according to the Cleveland Clinic.

The Black Death was one of the deadliest events in human history – and it changed Europe forever. In this video, we explore how the plague spread with terrifying speed, the suffering it left in its ...

Bubonic plague Sydney: How a city survived the black death in 1900 IN 1900, a Sydney wharfie who had been removing rats from his toilet died of the bubonic plague. A wave of public panic followed.

But the earliest known bubonic plague outbreak — the Plague of Justinian — took hold in the Mediterranean Basin and lasted from AD 541 to AD 544.

One of the bleakest periods in medieval Europe was the plague pandemic known as the Black Death, which killed at least 25 million people in just five years. But the disease didn’t stop there ...

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — One of the bleakest periods in medieval Europe was the plague pandemic known as the Black Death, which killed at least 25 million people in just five years. But ...