Nearly 700 years after the Black Death, a possible mass grave filled with human remains has been discovered near Erfurt, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers believe they’ve discovered a “plague pit” mass grave from 1350 outside of Erfurt, Germany. The deserted medieval ...

The largest outbreak of pneumonic plague in the U.S. since 1924 that sickened four people in Colorado in 2014 all started with a sick pit bull, according to a report from the Centers for Disease ...

(CNN) — The word “plague” brings to mind the great scourge of the Middle Ages that filled the streets and so-called plague pits with the bodies of its victims. But as recent news reports remind us, we ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Written records had indicated that about 12,000 people were buried in large pits outside the city of Erfurt, but their exact ...

Rod-shaped specimens of Yersinia pestis, the bacterial cause of plague, find a happy home here in the foregut of a flea. Fleas can transmit the infection to animals and people, who can get pneumonic ...

(CNN) -- The Black Death, the world’s most devastating plague outbreak, killed half of medieval Europe’s population in the space of seven years in the 14th century, shifting the course of human ...

Historical records from 1350 show that as many as 12,000 people were buried in 11 “plague pits” outside the city of Erfurt, Germany, after the Black Death claimed up to half of Europe’s population ...

Researchers believe they’ve discovered a “plague pit” mass grave from 1350 outside of Erfurt, Germany. The deserted medieval village of Neuses was struck hard by the Black Death plague in the 14 th ...