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The mummy, housed at the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy, revealed traces of Yersinia pestis DNA, the bacterium responsible for the bubonic plague ... carrying the Black Death across the world ...

FOR most, mention of the Black Death probably conjures up medieval images of people dying horrifically in the street. Caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, the bubonic plague has killed ...

The Black Death — also known as bubonic plague — has killed 200million people worldwide and medics fear a super-strength version may now appear. The team behind the Oxford AstraZeneca ...

Honolulu officials thought fire could stop the bubonic plague from spreading through the growing city. But high winds ...

This is a far cry from the situation which evolved in the 14th century when doctors tried a range of unique remedies to cure the Black Death. However, modern-day bubonic plague can also become ...

The topic before the house, In the Wake of the Plague, this week on Think Tank. The Black Death, believed to be bubonic plague, possibly mixed in with anthrax, killed between thirty and fifty ...

Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black ... bubonic and 100 percent for septicemic. The mortality rate for untreated pneumonic plague is 100 percent; death ...

The Black Death was a serious disease that killed millions over people around the world over a period of several hundred years. It was named after the colour of the sores that grew under the skin ...

Some doctors burst the buboes of patients with bubonic plague. There is some evidence that this may have helped increase chances of survival. To try and stop the spread of Black Death, fines were ...