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Category: Black Death
17th-Century Londoners Died of Fright, Itch and Grief
A treatise by the pioneering statistician John Graunt, now on display at London’s Royal Society, provides a glimpse at life and death in the 1600s.
Is the Black Death the Ancestor of All Modern Plagues?
Scientists have sequenced the genome of the bug responsible for the Black Death, which killed up to half of Europe’s population in the mid-14th century.
Can We Stop Blaming Rats for the Black Death?
A new study suggests that humans, not vermin, spread the Black Death, and that the disease may not have been bubonic plague after all.
They’re Back: A Bed Bug History
Many American cities are plagued by the worldwide resurgence of bed bugs, pesky critters with a history that dates back to ancient times.
