The Bubonic ... plague was being spread by birds. (We now know that rats and fleas were responsible for spreading the Black Death.) The doctors may have thought that dressing up in a bird-like gas ...

A "plague doctor mask" is essentially a large bird mask. At one point it was used as part of a medieval hazmat suit for doctors attempting to treat victims of the bubonic plague during Europe's ...

Plague doctors, who wore a bird-like mask with a beak to protect them from being infected, have a become a symbol of the Black Death. Bubonic plague is the most common form of the disease that ...