Bubonic plague

The Black Death was an outbreak of bubonic plague in which, over the course of centuries, many Europeans succumbed.

History

14th century

Durac, also known as Death, appeared during a Black Death outbreak in Cardiff until one brave girl fought him to a standstill. (TW: Dead Man Walking)

16th century

William Shakespeare's son Hamnet was a victim. It was grief over his death that saw Shakespeare at his lowest ebb. (DW: The Shakespeare Code)

17th century

In 1666, escaped Terileptil convicts created a deliberately more virulent variant on the black death in order to infect rats with it so as to spread it to Humans. (DW: The Visitation)

21st century

When the Cardiff rift was opened, people with the black death fell through time. (TW: End of Days)