For two months in the summer of 1518, some 400 residents of the city of Strasbourg in modern-day France fell victim to a ...

Edna Bonhomme, author of "A History of the World in Six Plagues," details how pandemics are about more than viruses ...

plague is an infectious disease usually found on small animals and transmitted through fleas or broken skin. It’s best known as being the cause of the Black Death, when rats carrying infected ...

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 ...

But according to a recent book by Norman Cantor, In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World it Made, that disease also forged a new world dedicated to the proposition that men had ...