Since the reign of Emperor Justinian in 542 A.D., man has one unwelcome organism along for the ride, Yersinia pestis. This is the bacterium more commonly know as the Black Death, the plague. Plague is divided into three biotypes, each associated with one of three major pandemics occurring in history...

The Black Death: It's Effect on European Civilization The Black Death: It's Effect on European Civilization "The Black Death" known as the Bubonic Plague was one of the world's worst natural disasters in history and as a fatal epidemic disease it radically altered all...

In 1348, in the major Trade City of Florence, a ship from China docked on the port carrying the rat that would lead Europe through one of the greatest epidemics ever known to man, the Black Death. The virulent plague quickly claimed the lives of a third of the population. There was no escape, as ...