Here are 13 facts about the Black Death. Recent archaeological research ... One of the first symptoms of plague to appear are painful, swollen lymph nodes at the neck, groin, and armpit known ...

It's a disease we associate with medieval times, when it was known as the "Black Death", but fears are growing that an outbreak of bubonic plague could be the next global pandemic. With that fear ...

suggesting that the deadly disease was present in North Africa thousands of years before the Black Death devastated Europe. The mummy, housed at the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy, revealed traces ...

Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before the Black Death, a new study shows. Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that ...