A woman dressed up as a plague doctor holds a sign in front of the Capitol warning that people who are against vaccination could prolong the COVID-19 pandemic. On Thursday, the House Energy and ...

During the outbreak of the bubonic plague in Italy in the 1650s, it was believed that the doctors taking care of the sick would dawn these masks in addition to long garb and wide-brimmed leather hats.

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-ce… ...

Andy Mitton’s movie The Harbinger emphasizes that unsettling quality by turning a plague-doctor figure into a horror-movie icon. (That’s what distinguishes it from 2022’s other horror movie ...

Police have identified the figure dressed as a 17th century plague doctor as a teenage boy (Picture: @Jade Gosbell Provider: Jade Gosbell) A teenage prankster filmed walking around dressed as a ...

Photo credits: DSCF1259.jpg by Darren and Brad/flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0; Paul Fürst, engraving, c. 1721, of a plague doctor of Marseilles/public domain/via Wikimedia Contact the author at katharine ...