Scientists are reporting that they’ve discovered an ancestor of the Black Death in 4,000-year-old sheep remains. The ...

including the 6th-century Justinian plague and the 14th-century Black Death. In tracing the backstories of diseases like ...

Surgeon General George M. Sternberg in the January Appletons' Popular Science Monthly. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Full text is unavailable for ...

Mortality rates for treated individuals range from 1 percent to 15 percent ... In England, the plague took on the name Black Death, because of the characteristic spots that started under the ...

I pray to God every night that we will soon find out what causes this deadly disease. The term 'Black Death' was first used in English in the 1700s. At the time of the epidemic, most people would ...

Although the Black Death of 1349 then caused devastating losses, with mortality likely to have been approximately 60% of people, the study—recently published in the journal Continuity and Change ...