Avoid him like the plague! Cops in the English village of Hellesdon are hunting for an unidentified individual who’s been creeping out locals by lurking around town while dressed as a 17th-century ...

The deadly plague sweeping Madagascar may have a particularly gruesome cause — a local tradition of dancing with dead bodies. Health officials suspect it’s no coincidence that the outbreak — which has ...

In Italy and France during the 17th century, the plague doctor was a physician who treated victims of the bubonic plague. He would dawn a plague mask which usually resembled the face of a white bird ...

I first glimpsed a plague doctor years ago, in a framed etching on the wall of a Venetian gift shop. The image was macabre: a sinister, masked figure draped in a dark robe. The head was covered with a ...

Mark Honigsbaum, a medical historian and author of books like "The Pandemic Century," knows from face masks, going back to their first known medical use, during the Black Death – the bubonic plague of ...

EXCLUSIVE: Former Spandau Ballet and Eastenders star Martin Kemp is starring in serial killer movie Doctor Plague, which is underway in London. Kemp stars as jaded detective John Verney who is on the ...