The plague — which in the mid-14th century was also known as the Black Death — devastated swaths ... coughs or spews infected droplets. The classical route of infection for this disease ...

pestis epidemic — the first was the Plague of Justinian in the sixth century, said Mary Fissell, a medical historian at Johns Hopkins University. But the Black Death is the best known and is ...

Also known as the Black Death, the bubonic plague is one of history’s most infamous diseases in history. It is spread when humans are bitten by fleas that piggyback on rodents When the microbes ...