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An Intimate History of the Black Death, The Most Devastating Plague of All Time (HarperCollins), from which the following article is adapted. The Deniers’ case against Y. pestis can be reduced ...

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 ...

Widely believed to have led to the 14th-century Black Death pandemic (the biggest global pandemic in recorded history), bubonic plague – one of three types of plague – had a mortality rate of between ...

Also called 'Black Death' and 'Pestilence' and 'Great Mortality', the Bubonic plague which recurred in Europe for centuries, ...

Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death. While extremely ...

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 ...

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

Scientists who developed the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine during the Covid pandemic are developing the UK's first bubonic plague amid fears an outbreak of the disease could re-emerge. The plague ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Europe that emerged was traumatized but more dynamic than ever, set on a slow path of philosophical, scientific and geographic discovery that eventually spread..