The plague seems like a disease of a distant century, conjuring up the rat-infested cities of medieval Europe ... plague from a flea bite is low. Treatment, however, is highly effective using ...

The treatment is used for the two most common types of plague: bubonic and pneumonic. “The reason why it caused such widespread death and destruction in the Middle Ages is because we didn’t ha ...

CU Boulder acknowledges that it is located on the traditional territories and ancestral homelands of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Ute and many other Native American nations. Their forced removal from these ...

2007. "Yersinia pestis Orientalis in Remains of Ancient Plague Patients." Emerging Infectious Diseases 13 (2): 332–33. Garrelt, Christina, and Ingrid Wiechmann. 2003. "Detection of Yersinia pestis DNA ...

Today, however, most plague cases don’t result in death because of advances in treatment ... about a third of Europe, in ...