Article: Vampire woman dug up.(News)

Article: The lady is a vamp.(News)
Sunday Mirror (London, England);  March 8, 2009 ;     301 words ... ... discovery was made at a burial ground for victims of the Black Death in Venice. Experts say people thought putting a ... stopped vampires in their tracks. Archaeologist Matteo Borrini said: "They probably did it because plague victims ...

Article: Medieval 'vampire' skull found near Venice.
PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.;  March 9, 2009 ;     507 words ... ... spreading the plague epidemics through Europe, team leader Matteo Borrini of Florence University said, adding the skull could be the ... particularly hard hit by the plague -- when a later wave of the Black Death swept through the city between 1630 and 1631, the epidemic ...

Article: Nick Drainey's World View
Scotland on Sunday;  March 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... victims of a plague which swept the city in the 16th century. Matteo Borrini, an anthropologist from the University of Florence, said ... that vampires were behind the spread of plagues such as the Black Death. CHINA Police in south-west China are spicing up drivers ...

Article: 'Vampire' find.(News)
Sunday Tribune (South Africa);  March 15, 2009 ;     299 words ... ... to prevent her feeding on victims of a 16th-century plague. Matteo Borrini, an anthropologist at the University of Florence, said the discovery ... belief that vampires were behind the spread of plagues like the Black Death. - Reuters

Article: Health Watch: So what really caused the black ...
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  December 12, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Byline: JOHN VON RADOWIZ The Black Death plague that swept through Europe between ... Their conclusion is chilling - that the Black Death was probably not caused by plague but ... idea that bubonic plague caused the Black Death dates back to the late 19th century ...

Article: Black Death `was caused by the Ebola virus'
The Independent - London;  July 23, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... TEXTBOOKS have got it wrong about the Black Death, which they say was caused by bubonic ... could mean that a modern form of the Black Death can emerge without requiring the insanitary ... disease specialists who have analysed the Black Death have concluded that it bears a closer ...

Article: Duration of Urban Mortality for the 14th-Century Black ...
Human Biology;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Abstract The Black Death epidemic of 1347-1351 was one of ... must have been smaller. KEY WORDS: BLACK DEATH, EPIDEMIOLOGX MEDIEVAL DEMOGRAPHY ... previous large-scale epidemics. The Black Death remains the worst natural disaster ...