The bubonic plague wiped out tens of millions of people in Europe in the 14th century — gaining the grim label the Black Death.In 2024, a handful of cases arise each year in the United States ...

A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive for centuries.

The Decameron is a dark comedy miniseries and Netflix original based on the 14th-century Italian short-story collection of ...

Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but potentially more transmissible ...

A person in Pueblo County, Colorado, about 100 miles south of Denver, has been infected with bubonic plague, local health officials said Monday. Last week, state and local officials identified the ...

Bubonic plague is still found in scattered locations around the world, but thanks to modern antibiotics it is far easier to treat than in the past. Yet, the disease may still have left its mark on ...

The Black Death, caused by the spread of the yersinia pestis bacteria by rats, was a devastating pandemic that first struck Europe in the mid-1300s, when it's estimated to have killed up to two ...

Some, like those behind the bubonic plague, have had a big impact on our immune systems. The Black Death in the 14th century was the single deadliest event in recorded history, ...

Bubonic plague victims in a mass grave in Martigues, France. S. Tzortzis/CDC/Wikimedia Commons . While the impact of the Black Death in the 14th century is undeniable, ...

When the Black Death struck, there were no evolutionary biologists to document its impact. In the 1990s, some scientists searched for clues by studying the DNA of living Europeans.

However, in today's world, the once-deadly Bubonic Plague is a remnant of the past, with a couple of thousand cases popping up around the world every year. Between 2010 and 2015, ...

The bubonic plague is caused by Yersinia pestis, a bacterium that was likely first introduced in North America around 1900 from rats on ships coming from South Asia, according to Timothy Brewer, M ...