Consumption, phthisis, the white plague—a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least the ...

The plague’s deadliest outbreak was in the 1300s – but is it gone for good? In this one-minute video, our Ask Smithsonian Host, Eric Schulze, explains what causes the plague and what we are ...

The once powerful city eventually fell into decline due to what historians think was a combination of regional strife and a deadly plague which struck the Near East, the Mediterranean region and ...

EATING a cheap 89p vegetable could help people manage a silent killer condition that plagues millions of Brits, a study suggests. It's thought that 5.8 million people in the UK are living with ...

Millions of rats were killed and in 2 months no new cases of plague were reported. Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout Europe and Asia over the past centuries. In the ...

Memorialized in the writings of John Donne and children's songs like "Ring Around the Rosy," the plague seems like a disease of a distant century. Today, there are only a few cases of plague ...