"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...

The Bubonic plague, more commonly known as the Black Death due to the black ‘buboes’ that would swell in the armpits and ...

Even then, masking was controversial, notes Winston Black, a medieval medicine and religion historian at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia. “Our earliest evidence of plague masks already ...

The Black Death is probably the most famous pandemic ... and the plague that is ravaging Europe has arrived in Scotland. George Rae, a plague doctor, is standing Leith outside one of the isolation ...

Some doctors burst the buboes of patients with bubonic plague. There is some evidence that this may have helped increase chances of survival. To try and stop the spread of Black Death, fines were ...