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 ...

The Black Death, a bubonic plague pandemic, is estimated to have resulted in the death of nearly 50% of Europe’s 14th century population, making it one of the deadliest disease outbreaks in human ...

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

A new study from a University of Nottingham archaeologist has revealed surprising insights into the city's medieval past, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 14th-century global outbreak of bubonic plague, known as the Black Death, was the deadliest disease outbreak in recorded history, killing up to half of the European, Asian, and African populations ...