He was 12 when the plague outbreak of 1592 killed tens of thousands of Londoners.
The World Health Organisation says the last major bubonic plague outbreak was in Peru in 2010.
He may have been forced to by a plague outbreak that hit Haarlem soon after he left.
The first fatality of Madagascar's deadly plague outbreak – which has now claimed at least 74 lives – initially went unnoticed.
The pneumonic plague outbreak has also hit sectors of society outside impoverished communities, who are typically most at risk.
The British government, fearing a plague outbreak, drew up plans to close the ports to traffic from the continent.
Dr. Butler, an expert on plague, had been conducting research on which antibiotics should be stockpiled in case of a plague outbreak.
Hopes of reintroducing one of North America's rarest mammals, the black-footed ferret, into Montana have diminished this year -- the indirect victim of a plague outbreak and of land management politics.
Nonetheless, both of those tactics have been imposed in the past 120 years — as long ago as a 1900 plague outbreak in San Francisco, and as recently as a measles outbreak in Philadelphia in 1991.
Yet the courts have not compelled SMMC to compensate or re-employ the dockworkers, and lately the case has stalled, partly down to court clerks in Toamasina and partly because hearings have been postponed over concerns about the plague outbreak.
To maintain an image of what is now called "austerity Britain" after a plague outbreak in 1665 and the Great Fire of London a year later, Charles II ordered his courtiers to dress in simple tunics, shirts and breeches.
