The Black Death arrived on the shores of England in May 1348 and, in less than two years, spread throughout the country, killing an estimated 2 million people.

A LOT of historic sites are shrouded in suffering and death, but one UK town is known entirely for its tragic past. Eyam in ...

Visiting the Tower of London has another attraction- the Black Death Mass Grave.

A mass grave with 14th-century skeletons possibly linked to the Black Death was recently discovered at the Tower of London, ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered the remains of up to 50 people in the Tower of London. Historians believe that many of bodies were likely to be those of victims of the Black Death. Built in the 11th ...

A person has died from plague, also called the Black Death, less than a day after going to A&E with symptoms in the US.

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A new study in Science suggests that changes in a gene in Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, could’ve added to the length of two plague pandemics, including the pandemic that started ...

Using hundreds of samples from ancient and modern plague victims, the team screened for a gene known as pla, a high copy component of Y. pestis which helps it move through the immune system ...

Although the plague killed millions of Europeans during the Black Death of the 14th century, it is now easily treated with antibiotics. An etching called "The Plague Victims of Rome." ...