have proven that the bacteria Yersinia pestis was indeed the causative agent behind the "Black Death" that raged across Europe in the Middle Ages. The cause of the epidemic has always remained ...

People are scared and look to religion or other explanations for its causes ... Death, they could do little to stop future outbreaks. There were further Black Death cases throughout the Middle ...

The plague — which in the mid-14th century was also known as the Black Death — devastated swaths ... and would have likely been common in the Middle Ages when hygiene was poorer.