By taking the now-powdery black pulp out of the teeth of plague victims buried in London's East Smithfield Cemetery —a cemetery established solely to handle theonslaught of the Black Death once ...

The Bubonic plague, more commonly known as the Black Death due to the black ‘buboes’ that would swell in the armpits and groins of victims, decimated the population of Europe during the Middle ...

Egyptian mummy discovered with bubonic plague rewrites history of the notorious Black Death By Ben Cost Published Dec. 24, 2024, 3:49 p.m. ET ...

An etching called "The Plague Victims of Rome." The Black Death killed millions of people in Europe in the 14th century. (Ken Welsh/Design Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) ...

People call it the Black Death; they call it bubonic plague; they call it pneumonic plague—it’s all the same disease, just different clinical manifestations.

The disease that caused the Black Death is believed to have traveled much quicker, arriving in Europe from Asia in 1347, after the Golden Horde, a Mongol Army, catapulted plague-infected bodies ...

Black Death Plague That Killed Millions Became Less Fatal because of This Genetic Tweak Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but ...

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.