Mary Ann Bernal

A mass grave of 30 possible bubonic plague victims is being excavated in London at the huge cemetery of Bedlam mental asylum that was disc...

Bubonic plague, the most common form, is associated with painful, swollen lymph nodes, called buboes as shown above. After an incubation p...

By Stephanie Pappas, Senior Writer   This 1977 image shows the necrotic flesh that gave the Black Death its name. This symptom is kno...

  Black death researchers extracted plague DNA from 14th century skulls found in east London. Photograph: Philip Toscano/PA   Eviden...