Known for killing people within a day of symptoms starting, the true origins of the "sweats" that plagued the 1500s remain unknown to this day. Reading time 3 minutes Death and illness have never been ...

From 1485 through the latter part of the 16th century, a new plague – English "sweating sickness" – ravaged England and Europe, killing thousands of people. The fearsome disease had many names ...

In 1485, a mysterious illness swept through England, killing its victims in as little as three to eighteen hours. Known as the “sweating sickness,” it returned in waves over the next 66 years — and ...