Why did plague doctors wear that weird beaked costume?
The sinister uniform represents a fascinating trip into history, during a time when humans were still struggling to understand infectious ...
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This 5,000-year-old-man may have been the “oldest” plague victim
A contender for "patient zero" for the plague.
Scientists find oldest evidence of black plague in 5,000-year-old human remains
The remains of a 20-year-old woman found in Sweden may help scientists retrace the origin of the deadly disease.
Fleas and lice from humans, rather than rats, were likely responsible for spreading the Black Plague
New research seems to vindicate rats as the harbingers of one of the deadliest diseases in history.
Exonerate the rats – it was gerbils that brought the Black Plague
It's always the cute ones - a team of Norwegian researchers found that the Black Plague, which arrived in Europe ...
Black Plague genome sequenced by scientists
The black plague, or black death as it's also referenced, is a deadly infectious disease which killed off more than ...
Rats not responsible for black plague
A recent study has shown that the plague spread so quickly that the carriers couldn't have been rats, as is ...