And one of those plagues happened in between the era of Egypt's New Kingdom and the Black ... and the Near East in the 6th century AD. China and Mongolia had their own brush with the bubonic ...

Malaria is not ordinarily much of a killer, but in Upper Egypt last week it was as lethal as the plague. Accepted estimate was that in two years it has caused about 86,000 deaths in Qena and Aswan ...