The world's oldest living person, Spanish pensioner Maria Branyas Morera, who was born in the United States and survived a plague epidemic and two world wars, has died at the age of 117 ...
The Santa Maria della Salute was built to celebrate the end of the plague in 1631 and is dedicated to Our Lady of Health. Nowadays, many will recognize this magnificent Roman Catholic Church as ...
Dr Maria Spyrou, a researcher at the University ... The research team were able to find the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, in three of them. Dr Philip Slavin, a historian at the University ...