Researchers discovered that the absence of one critical gene made the plague less virulent, and may have allowed two major ...

The Black Death killed as many as 50 million people during the 14th Century (Picture: Getty) Scientists who developed the AstraZeneca COVID jab are working on a new vaccine to combat the Black ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has worked in the fields of neuroscience research and mental health treatment. The oldest confirmed case of the ...

The Black Death is a plague that changed the world. As the most profound epidemic in human history, the plague claimed the lives of millions, with nearly half of Europe's population perishing from ...

Warning! This article contains SPOILERS for The Decameron. The Decameron set during the Black Plague delivers a dark comedy while not shying away from the tragedy of the time. Characters in the ...

The plague sounds like something out of a history book. But the disease—nicknamed the “Black Death” or “Great Pestilence”—that killed more than 25 million people, about a third of ...

Plague is no longer the human scourge it was during “The Black Death,” when it wiped out entire generations of medieval Europe and Asia. Nor does it pose the same threat it did when dense ...

The plague bacterium caused the 14th-century Black Death pandemic, which killed millions of people across Asia, Europe and North Africa. Symptoms include swollen lymph nodes, muscle aches ...

when it was called the Black Death, according to History.com. It became known as the Black Death for the black blotches caused by internal bleeding, the National Institutes of Health said.

The bubonic plague wiped out tens of millions of people in Europe in the 14th century — gaining the grim label the Black Death. In 2024, a handful of cases arise each year in the United States ...

These outbreaks include the infamous Black Death, which wiped out a third of Europe’s population in the mid-1300s, amassing a body count in the tens of millions. “The plague really transformed ...