In either case, death usually happened within three days. One of the biggest outbreaks of the bubonic plague was the Great Plague of 1665. This was the worst outbreak for over 300 years and ...

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 skeleton in the middle symbolises death. During the Great Plague, people noticed that different strains of the plague caused different symptoms. We now know that there are three types of ...

Initial symptoms — sudden fever ... This single yearlong outbreak, known as the Great Plague, claimed the lives of 100,000 Londoners — one person in every five died. The children's song ...