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

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 ...

George Rae, a plague doctor, is standing Leith outside one ... they uncovered the plague’s origins – uncovering skeletons buried in modern-day Kyrgyzstan that had been infected by the bacteria ...