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

Bubonic plague — the kind contracted by ... outbreaks continued for roughly the next 400 years. An earlier major plague pandemic, dubbed the Justinian plague, started in the Eastern Roman ...

The second pandemic, which started in October 1347 ... pestis bacteria also causes bubonic plague, but it is instead transmitted through the bite of an infected flea or exposure to infected ...

How will the pandemic end? Past outbreaks offer clues. How will the pandemic end? Past outbreaks offer clues. The Plague of Athens killed tens of thousands, but its cause remains a mystery The ...

The Black Death is probably the most famous pandemic in history. Between 1347 and 1351, this outbreak of bubonic plague killed millions of people across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

Word spreads of a bubonic plague outbreak in San Francisco’s ... it could be the start of a nationwide pandemic or an elaborate hoax to destroy the economy. Sound familiar?

But the pandemic will hit different industries and ... and increasing their vulnerability to invasion and decline. And bubonic plague—the “Black Death”— killed up to 50% of Europe ...

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 ...

Public health officials in Colorado recently confirmed that a man has plague. The narrator of Charlotte Wood’s new novel has shed her life to live with nuns. The world intrudes in the form of ...

The Europe that emerged was traumatized but... Contact tracing has been remarkably successful at helping contain the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea, Australia and Germany, as well as some ...