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 ...

Plague doctors wore a distinctive costume - the beak mask held dried flowers and reduced the effect of bad smells for the medic A suspected case of bubonic plague has been reported to Chinese ...

Bubonic plague, caused by bacterial infection, was responsible for one of the deadliest epidemics in human history - the Black Death - which ... an infectious diseases doctor at Stanford Health ...

Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black ... bubonic and 100 percent for septicemic. The mortality rate for untreated pneumonic plague is 100 percent; death ...

The pandemic of bubonic plague—later dubbed the Black Death—raged through Europe from 1347 to 1351 and wiped out between ...

The Black Death was a serious disease that killed millions over people around the world over a period of several hundred years. It was named after the colour of the sores that grew under the skin ...

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 ...

A 15-year-old boy has died from the bubonic plague as countries are placed on alert over Black Death warnings. The boy contracted the disease in Mongolia and dozens of people who contacted him are ...

The creature carried a strain of pernicious bacteria called Yersinia pestis - the pathogen that caused the Black Death, or bubonic plague in the 1300s. The bacteria likely killed the Stone Age man ...

Experts have seen a re-emergence of the rare diseaseMedically reviewed by Renee Nilan, MDFact checked by Nick ...