Asher Watkins, a 52-year-old Texas millionaire renowned for his success in luxury ranch real estate, was fatally gored by a ...

The Black Death, dying out in the 17th century, lost the fight. The last great epidemic was in 1670 - after that smallpox took over as the number one infectious disease killer.

The origins of the Black Death are a mystery no more, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. The Black Death was a plague caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis that first ...

Yet when an editor at the Free Press called in the summer of 1997, asking whether I would consider doing a book on the Black Death, which swept through Europe in the 14th century, I had my doubts.

The Black Death’s gruesome, powerful hold on the human psyche is readily understandable. But why is it that so many people yearn for a return to the cold, miserable conditions that spawned the ...

Climate change could re-awaken ancient diseases and even the Black Death, according to an Oxford University professor. Higher global temperatures would melt ice sheets that store long-buried bacter… ...

Although the pic is set in 1348, screenwriter Dario Poloni (“Wilderness”) has spliced into “Black Death” a lot of thematic DNA from 20th-century-set “The Wicker Man” (1973), another ...