It was more than a century ago during the Manchurian plague, when masks were taking their place ... in his book Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present.

Plague doctors before the bird-style mask was introduced It was the Black Death - a plague that first swept Europe in the 14th Century, killing at least 25 million people between 1347 and 1351 ...

An over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague marks the first case of the disease outside the ...

The pneumonic plague, which is believed to be the variant that caused the Black Death pandemic, showed up in a husband and wife in a remote area of the country. Now, China says a third person has ...

Over the following centuries, plague returned many times ... it would persuade God to free the world from the Black Death. A protective mask used by doctors during the 17th century when they ...