As early as the thirteenth century, man has had one unwelcome organism along for the ride, Yersinia pestis. This is the bacterium more commonly known as the Black Death or the plague. Plague is a word that has struck fear in the hearts of man since the earliest of times. It has also led to some o...

The Bubonic Plague was a deadly disease that was spread by fleas on rats. During the Middle Ages, millions of the people in various countries died from this sickness, also referred to as the Black Death, and were in chaos. Yet, the Bubonic Plague can be considered a fortunate event in...

The bubonic plague, or as it is more familiarly known, The Black Death, swept through Europe in the mid 14-century. The epidemic is said to have killed off 25 to 50 percent of the European population between 1347 and 1351. The debilitating disease took only three to five days to ki...