Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and to those who know, the pretty, bright orange flowers ascending the hills above Hana represent a garish plague. Potentially replacing ohia, olapa ...

is believed by many to capture the experience of having the plague. A "rosy" is the initial reddish skin spot. "Pocketful of posies" refers to the sweet flowers that victims carried ...

Plague doctors wore a distinctive costume - the beak mask held dried flowers and reduced the effect of bad smells for the medic A suspected case of bubonic plague has been reported to Chinese ...