Hello all,
once again I am working on a historiography outside of my subject zone and wanted any advice on books I should be looking at. I am writing a paper on the controversy over the exact cause of the Black Death in Europe. I have already read Cohn, "The Black Death Transformed", Benedictow's "The Black Death" "Biology of Plagues" "Plagues and People" "From the Brink of the Apocalypse" and Twigg and Ziegler for more classic work. What I really need is contemporary articles talk about the Black Death and perhaps more modern counter-arguments to the "plague deniers." Any sort of help would be much appreciated!
John Aberth's From the Brink of the Apocalypse is good and thorough and recent. You should be able to mine the bibliography to find more articles and books. Aberth also wrote a text book on the plague that is more recent by a few years, and it might also yield some new research.
In terms of plague denial, it's really more of a historical biology/archaeology question. The issue is what particular disease/bacterium/virus etc. actually caused the plague, not whether it happened or what its effects were (which concerns traditional historians more). You might try looking at (or even contacting) some of the people working on this. I know there is a team at McMaster University working on this. There was also a recent dig in London being conducted by the University of London. Don Walker was working on that.
There are also some redditors who are achaeologists who study infectious disease, and they might have a sense of where to direct you. You can also just ask /r/AskAnthropology.