Live coronavirus updates across the East of England Doctors treating those with the Black Death believed the bird-like mask acted as a filter against the disease. Plague doctors believed the beak ...

FOR most, mention of the Black Death probably conjures up medieval images of people dying horrifically in the street. Caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, the bubonic plague has killed ...

Doctors treating those with the Black Death believed the mask acted as a ... media page attracting many different points of view. Plague doctors in the 17th Century believed the beak-like masks ...

Scientists who developed the AstraZeneca COVID jab are working on a new vaccine to combat the Black Death amid rising fears ...

The bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death, is one of history's deadliest diseases. It typically spreads through fleas that infest rodents, which then bite humans, transmitting the bacteria.

Some doctors burst the buboes of patients with bubonic plague. There is some evidence that this may have helped increase chances of survival. To try and stop the spread of Black Death, fines were ...

The Black Death was a serious ... Others think that pneumonic plague was most serious because of the way it spread rapidly from human to human. In either case, death usually happened within ...

Scientists behind the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronovirus jab have called for the UK to add a bubonic plague vaccine to its stockpile as the risk of a superbug strain rises ...