A recent health reporting error in the UK sparked fears of a bubonic plague resurgence, reminiscent of the 'Black Death' that ...

However the most distinctive part of the outfit was the headgear. Plague doctors wore spectacles and a mask with a beak-like ...

The Plague Doctor’s eerie beak mask was designed to protect against “evil” smells thought to cause disease. But the truth behind this creepy costume will shock you! Discover the medically obsolete ...

George Rae, a plague doctor, is standing Leith outside one of the isolation huts. He dreads the thought of what is waiting for him inside; more victims dying an incurable, horrible death – with ...

On March 6, 1900, a city health officer autopsied a deceased Chinese man and found organisms in the body that looked like plague. In 1894, two research physicians had simultaneously and ...