Well, believe it or not, the plague is still around. Blame fleas and the rats, mice, chipmunks, and squirrels they infect. Bubonic plague is caused by bacteria that live in fleas. If you get bit ...

Bubonic plague does continue to infect and kill people ... "We're still unsure why the plague did not return to our shores after it faded out in the 1670s, but it wasn’t due to London’s ...

A bubonic plague has descended on Glasgow players ... The prognosis is pretty vague and the uncertainty about their return is head wrecking. Franco is sanguine about it, in public at any rate.

That was the time at which the Black Death -- bubonic plague -- swept like a deadly scythe through Europe, killing one-third of the population. Then, as now, there were individuals who survived ...

As it advances, however, the dreaded bubonic plague causes painful swellings (buboes) in the lymph nodes. Septicemic plague infects the bloodstream. Pneumonic plague, which can be passed from ...

Bubonic plague is most commonly associated with the Middle Ages when the Black Death wiped out as many as 200 million people and 60% of Europe's population between 1347 and 1351.

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.

This trade helped bubonic plague to spread from Asia to European countries. Bubonic plague is believed to have arrived in the country on a ship landing on the Dorset coast from Gascony in France.