Kelly, who holds a graduate degree in European history, is the author most recently ... accounts of the “ordinary eastern or bubonic plague” rarely mentioned four symptoms that Black Death ...

Caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, the bubonic plague has killed hundreds of millions and left a gruesome mark on history. The Black Death, which struck 14th-century Europe, led to the ...

The plague. Sounds like one for the history books, right? Well, believe it or not, the plague is still around. Blame fleas and the rats, mice, chipmunks, and squirrels they infect. Bubonic plague ...

We now know that there are three types of plague: bubonic plague, pneumonic plague and septicaemic plague. Bubonic plague was spread when people were bitten by fleas, which lived on rats.

The Black Death — also known as bubonic plague — has killed 200million people worldwide and medics fear a super-strength version may now appear. The team behind the Oxford AstraZeneca ...

A vaccine for the bubonic plague is currently in development as the potential risk of a pandemic remains. To date, there is no cure for the disease, which claimed millions of lives during the 14th ...