"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...

The Black Death, believed to be bubonic plague, possibly mixed in with anthrax, killed between thirty and fifty percent of Europe’s population in the years 1348 and 1349. Norman Cantor writes ...

The Bubonic plague, more commonly known as the Black Death due to the black ‘buboes’ that would swell in the armpits and ...

including the infamous Black Death in the 14th Century, which is estimated to have killed between 30% and 60% of Europe's population. Analysis of the ancient plague DNA shows that Y. pestis ...

The Black Death peaked in Europe between 1348 and 1350, wiping out about 60 percent of London’s population. According to genome analysis comparing the ancient sample and a recent outbreak in ...

because of the characteristic spots that started under the skin as a deep red and turned black. As fleas reappeared each spring, so did the plague, killing one-third of Europe's people — 25 ...

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.