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

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. The horror bug that previously wiped out half of Europe in the Black Death is ...

The plague. Sounds like one for the history books, right? Well, believe it or not, the plague is still around. Blame fleas and the rats, mice, chipmunks, and squirrels they infect. Bubonic plague ...

"… [N]ever send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged ...

While the Spanish Flu pandemic is rightly associated with the early 1900s, Ireland was also faced with a potentially more deadly outbreak of the bubonic plague at the turn of the century.

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