FOR most, mention of the Black Death probably conjures up medieval images of people dying horrifically in the street. Caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, the bubonic plague has killed ...
The Black Death, which struck 14th-century Europe, led to the deaths of over 50 million people—around 50 per cent of the entire European population. But with recent cases popping up in parts of ...
An Egyptian mummy reveals that the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years before the Black Death terrorized Europe. Researchers analyzed an Egyptian mummy from a museum in ...