Since the onset of the pandemic, doctors, nurses and other medical practitioners who find themselves working closely with COVID-19 patients have traded their familiar white coats and scrubs for ...

Putting on a mask to protect oneself and others against disease is nothing new, nor is resistance to mask-wearing, but mask designs have changed considerably from their first iterations. A 1619 ...

The Bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death, ravaged Europe for centuries, claiming millions of lives. Believing the plague spread through miasma, or bad air, doctors wore elaborate costumes ...

Some Indigenous artists are channelling their anxieties about the COVID-19 pandemic into making unique face masks using traditional crafting techniques and materials. "During the pandemic, I'm trying ...

The Plague Doctor’s eerie beak mask was designed to protect against “evil” smells thought to cause disease. But the truth behind this creepy costume will shock you! Discover the medically obsolete ...

A person spotted around Toronto wearing black with a beak-shaped mask, pocket watch and hat has some very good reasons for wearing the odd outfit. A person dressed as a plague doctor drew the ...

I have a plague-doctor mask that I like. Not really to wear — it creeps people out — but for what it stands for. My mask is symbolic of health-care providers in another era, doing what they could with ...

This is a 17th-century German or Austrian plague doctor mask, from the collection of the Deutches Historisches Museum. (Anagoria/GNU Free Documentation License) Since the onset of the pandemic, ...