Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery: they found the DNA of the bacterium Yersinia pestis in a mummy from Egypt, ...

This groundbreaking discovery reveals the DNA of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium responsible for the plague, in a mummy from ...

Samples of 'The Black Death', which wiped out 50 million people in medieval times, were found in an Egyptian mummy ...

Researchers analysed the remains and identified traces of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium responsible for the bubonic plague, ...

AN EERIE Egyptian mummy who died a horror death has revealed to scientists an unbelievable Black Death secret. It is believed ...

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 ...

The small yellow rods seen resting on these purple blades are Yersinia pestis bacteria – the cause of bubonic plague. This bacterial infection is mainly spread to humans by fleas but can also be ...

Archaeologists in Italy have found one of the oldest known cases of the bubonic plague, which has caused millions of deaths ...

The mummy, housed at the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy, revealed traces of Yersinia pestis DNA, the bacterium responsible for the bubonic plague, indicating that the individual suffered horrific ...

Plague feels like a disease of the distant past but the cause, a bacterium called Yersinia pestis, was not identified until 1894 and it has never gone away. In the late 20th and early 21st Century ...

A descendant of that strain is blamed for the third pandemic, known as the Modern Plague, which originated in 1855 in China ...

See, the plague was actually caused by a bacterium called Yersinia pestis, spread by infected fleas and transported worldwide by rats. And the plague itself? Well, it never actually went away.