Usually transmitted by fleas hitching a ride on rodents, the bubonic plague attacks the lymphatic system, and initially ...

which is the basis of modern medicine. The belief that miasma was responsible for the Black Death meant there were efforts to clean up towns by employing gong farmers and muckrakers, which showed ...

The Black Death was a serious disease that killed millions over people around the world over a period of several hundred years. It was named after the colour of the sores that grew under the skin ...

The Black Death claimed an estimated 25 million lives ... Prof Stenseth said the study was primarily of historical interest - using modern understanding of disease to unpick what had happened ...

Just weeks before Christmas, a Black inmate at a New York prison was allegedly beaten to death by a group of correctional ...

AN EERIE Egyptian mummy who died a horror death has revealed to scientists an unbelievable Black Death secret. It is believed that the 3,290-year-old embalmed remains belonged to a male who ...