“God preserve us all.” The Great Plague of London had begun, and by the time it ended several months later, a quarter of the city would be dead. Reading Pepys’ diary for the rest of 1665 ...

This change in its epidemiology was why some experts questioned whether the Great Plague of London was caused by the same disease. “Looking at the DNA … could help tell us why the disease has ...

Many excellent accounts of the older outbreaks, notably of the Black Death in Europe in 1347, and the Great Plague of London in 1665, are in existence, but careful research into these documents by ...

Thousands were estimated to have perished during the outbreak, but what was the plague? How did it end? Here's all you need to know. It is known by a few names, the Black Death and the Great ...

DNA tests conducted in Germany found that the bacteria that causes bubonic plague caused London’s Great Plague of 1665-1666. The Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History tested ...

What caused the Great Plague of London, and how did it spread so quickly? This video uncovers the story of one of history’s deadliest epidemics, from the bacterium Yersinia pestis to the role of ...

pestis periodically burned through communities or whole regions. When English diarist Samuel Pepys wrote about the Great Plague of London in 1666, he was describing a later wave of the same ...

In 1665, another plague outbreak arrived in England. This is often referred to as the ‘Great Plague.’ During the outbreak of 1665 - 1666, 68,596 deaths were recorded in London alone ...