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 ...

The Black Death, which was caused by the bacterial agent Yersinia ... It was a time when the Scottish population was ravaged ...

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 ...

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 ...

If the disease spreads to the lungs ... A case of bubonic plague, responsible for the Black Death, has been detected in a ...

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 researchers' work was published in the journal Nature, titled "The source of the Black Death in fourteenth-century central Eurasia". Plague is a potentially lethal infectious disease that is ...

The plague still continues to haunt prairies and other rodents, especially in the western half of the United States.

The bite of rat-borne fleas infected with the bubonic plague has been blamed for disease transmission during ... for the spread of plague during the Black Death, according to a study.

The plague is one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history. An estimated 50 million Europeans died from it in ...

noted the causes of death as "pestilence" — an archaic word used to describe a fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague. The first victims of the Black Death would have died in agony.

The Black Death is the most potent plague ... Legends of the Dead DLC that can help you keep disease outbreaks in check. Hospices provide extra plague resistance, presumably because they round ...