On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...

Researchers have uncovered the oldest confirmed case of the plague outside Eurasia in an ancient Egyptian mummy, suggesting that the deadly disease was present in North Africa thousands of years ...

The topic before the house, In the Wake of the Plague, this week on Think Tank. The Black Death, believed to be bubonic plague, possibly mixed in with anthrax, killed between thirty and fifty ...

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 ...

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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 ...

January 1900: Australia’s first case of bubonic plague reported. Bubonic plague, or the ‘Black Death’ as it became known during the pandemic of the 17th century, is one of the most deadly diseases to ...

In untreated victims, the rates rise to about 50 percent for bubonic and 100 percent for septicemic. The mortality rate for untreated pneumonic plague is 100 percent; death occurs within 24 hours.

The disease quickly spread throughout the country. The first recorded case of the Black Death in England was in June 1348. Bubonic plague was spread by rats, which were commonly found in homes ...

Honolulu officials thought fire could stop the bubonic plague from spreading through the growing city. But high winds ...

Genetic testing of people who died in Kyrgyzstan eight years before plague reached Europe reveals an ancient strain of the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Reports of the infection—including one death this ...