George Rae, a plague doctor, is standing Leith outside one of ... The plague first emerged in Central Asia in the 1300s and spread like wildfire, before reaching Europe in 1347.

The plague’s deadliest outbreak was in the 1300s – but is it gone for good? In this one-minute video, our Ask Smithsonian Host, Eric Schulze, explains what causes the plague and what we are ...

Two more deadly waves of the plague hit in the 1500s and 1800s. In fact, scientists think that it may have been around before the 1300s ... In 1798, an British doctor, Edward Jenner, developed ...