Researchers have uncovered the oldest confirmed case of the plague outside Eurasia in an ancient Egyptian mummy, suggesting that the deadly disease was present in North Africa thousands of years ...

FOR most, mention of the Black Death probably conjures up medieval images of people dying horrifically in the street. Caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, the bubonic plague has killed ...

Bubonic plague is infamous for causing the Black Death, which led to millions of people across Europe dying in the Middle Ages. While it's uncommon to contract bubonic plague in most parts of the ...

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 ...

Sepsis is deadly because it varies so greatly between different patients, and within individual patients over time, making it ...

Oxford team reports hopeful results in trials as military experts say UK should stock supplies of Black Death inoculation ...

In either case, death usually happened within three days. One of the biggest outbreaks of the bubonic plague was the Great Plague of 1665. This was the worst outbreak for over 300 years and ...

In untreated victims, the rates rise to about 50 percent for bubonic and 100 percent for septicemic. The mortality rate for untreated pneumonic plague is 100 percent; death occurs within 24 hours.

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.

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

Sydney Sweeney is circling a revisionist new take on Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Masque of the Red Death.’ The Red One couldn’t ...

Scientists behind the Oxford Covid jab are developing a bubonic plague vaccine amid fears a superbug strain of the Black Death could emerge. There is no vaccine in the UK for the plague ...