The bubonic plague’s ... this ancestor of the Black Death died out sometime around 500 B.C. However, it wasn’t long before its pathogenic descendant evolved. The disease is among the various ...

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 ...

“What Wu suggested is that someone who has pneumonic plague, and his or her lungs are infected, can transmit this disease to others ... From the Black Death to the Present.