An excavation project is being carried out near the White Tower to prepare the chapel for a new lift - but a mass grave may ...

The skeletons are among more than 20 burials found during the excavation project near the White Tower, which was built by ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered the remains of up to 50 people in the Tower of London. Historians believe that many of bodies ...

The biggest excavation in 40 years at the Tower of London has uncovered the castle was hit by the plague. Dozens of bodies, ...

An Arizona resident died of pneumonic plague, a serious lung infection that requires antibiotics. Here’s what you need to ...

The remains of up to 50 people have been uncovered in the Tower of London, many of whom may have been killed by the Black ...

Plague is often associated with Medieval history and the centuries-old Black Death epidemic, but a recent death in northern Arizona is a troublesome reminder of the flea-borne disease’s lingering hold ...

The bubonic plague was spread by bacteria carried by fleas that lived on rats, but people back then didn't know much about it ...

Just 24 hours after being admitted to hospital with symptoms of the pneumonic plague - a patient in Arizona tragically passed ...

Animals such as rats can carry the bacterium that causes plague (Alamy/PA) ...

A mummy in Egypt has yielded a shocking discovery: the DNA of the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis—thousands of years before ...

Septicemic plague occurs if bubonic plague is left untreated, or it can occur directly if the disease enters the bloodstream.