The plague seems like a disease of a distant century ... to the sweet flowers that victims carried inconspicuously to cover the stench of their disease. "Ashes, ashes" indicates impending death ...

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 ...

Millions of rats were killed and in 2 months no new cases of plague were reported. Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout Europe and Asia over the past centuries. In the ...