The Bubonic plague, more commonly known as the Black Death due to the black ‘buboes’ that would swell in the armpits and ...
On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...
London faced one of its deadliest disasters—the Great Plague. The bubonic plague, carried by rats and fleas, spread rapidly ...