The Black Death was one of the most infamous pandemic events in history. It spread across Asia and Europe, decimating a third of the continent’s population during the Middle Ages. The cause was plague ...

Black Death Plague in US: A horrific simulation depicted what occurs if you get the bubonic plague. An individual in California tested positive for a type of plague, exactly a month after a person in ...

Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death.Video above: How did ...

Follow scientists as they track down the earliest known bubonic plague victims in hopes of preventing future outbreaks, while historians and scholars explore the societal impact of the plague on ...

Plague is no longer the human scourge it was during “The Black Death,” when it wiped out entire generations of medieval Europe and Asia. Nor does it pose the same threat it did when dense, unsanitary ...

The bacterium blamed for the Black Death that wiped out more than a third of Europe's population within about five years of the 14 th century looks an awful lot like the modern versions of the ...

Paul Gaylord contracted the "medieval" disease while rescuing an infected cat. July 19, 2012— -- Doctors will amputate an Oregon man's fingers and his toes next week, which were ravaged by the ...

In 1347, ships from the Black Sea arrived in Sicily carrying an unseen killer. Rats and fleas aboard the grain vessels spread the plague that would become the Black Death. Within months, Italian ports ...