On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...

The Bubonic plague, more commonly known as the Black Death due to the black ‘buboes’ that would swell in the armpits and ...

The most famous symptom was large sores caused by swollen lymph nodes, known as “buboes”, hence the name: the bubonic plague.

Past outbreaks offer clues. How will the pandemic end? Past outbreaks offer clues. The Plague of Athens killed tens of thousands, but its cause remains a mystery The Plague of Athens killed tens ...

The bubonic plague has cropped up in the US for the first time in nearly a decade. But, thanks to modern medicine, it is much less deadly than its notorious past. When 'The Great Plague' struck ...

A bubonic plague has descended on Glasgow players - Tuipulotu, Cummings, Williamson, Steyn, Hastings. Have I missed some? Probably. All the focus has been on the damage done to Scotland's Six ...

Kem Ormond takes a look at the world of farming back in the day. Bubonic plague conjures images of facing the Black Death during the Great Plague of London in 1665. However, New Zealand also had a ...