Scientists have uncovered a 4,000-year-old ancestor of the Black Death in the remains of a Bronze Age sheep, shedding light ...

Recent DNA analysis has uncovered that a Bronze Age sheep from Arkaim, a settlement in the southern Urals (situated in modern Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, near ...

The DNA of Yersinia pestis bacteria has been found in a Bronze Age sheep, offering a clue to how the plague may have spread ...

It is now known that the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis has been present in Central and Northern Europe for more than 5,000 ...

Genetic testing of people who died in Kyrgyzstan eight years before plague reached Europe reveals an ancient strain of the bacterium Yersinia pestis. In the foothills of the Tian Shan mountains in ...

It can also refer to one specific disease, Yersinia pestis. On top of that, a plague can refer to a large number of insects or animals in one place that are causing a lot of damage, like the ...

Reports of the infection—including one death this month—recently shook up social media. But, unlike COVID-19, plague is a disease that countries have more or less got under control. On March 7, ...

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 ...

Yet the highly infectious disease borne of the bacterium Yersinia pestis still persists. From 1,000 to 3,000 cases of plague are reported each year globally, 10 to 15 of them in the western United ...

About 14 months after the 9/11 attacks, my husband and I were admitted to a New York City hospital with a diagnosis of plague.

(Since 1970 the bacillus has been known as Yersinia pestis.) That the plague had an identifiable "germ" was known. But other recent findings had not been disseminated -- or believed. Most people ...