The Plague Column in Vienna was built to commemorate the outbreak of bubonic plague in 1679 that killed 12,000 people, and during the recent pandemic it became a shrine once more, a collective way ...

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 ...

At an investment conference in 2017, answering a question about bitcoin, he responded: "Avoid it like the plague. Do I make myself clear?" He explained, "Bitcoin has no underlying rate of return ...