Well, believe it or not, the plague is still around. Blame fleas and the rats, mice, chipmunks, and squirrels they infect. Bubonic plague is caused by bacteria that live in fleas. If you get bit ...

In the 1330s, bubonic plague broke out in China and was transported ... because of the characteristic spots that started under the skin as a deep red and turned black. As fleas reappeared each ...

Apropos of the plague—I do not know whether the following curious coincidence has been noticed. In that admirable work, John Graunt's “Natural and Political Observations upon the Bills of ...

Millions of rats were killed and in 2 months no new cases of plague were reported. Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout Europe and Asia over the past centuries. In the ...

This trade helped bubonic plague to spread from Asia to European countries. Bubonic plague is believed to have arrived in the country on a ship landing on the Dorset coast from Gascony in France.

The bubonic plague has cropped up in the US for the first time in nearly a decade. But, thanks to modern medicine, it is much less deadly than its notorious past. When 'The Great Plague' struck ...

The Black Death is probably the most famous pandemic in history. Between 1347 and 1351, this outbreak of bubonic plague killed millions of people across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

Infection was spread to man through bites from rat fleas, causing deadly bubonic plague and a highly contagious strain of pneumonia. Mr Simpson said the bacterium responsible - Yersinia pestis - which ...