Usually transmitted by fleas hitching a ride on rodents, the bubonic plague attacks the lymphatic system, and initially ...

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 ...

Today, more than 100 years after Robert Koch unequivocally showed that a disease—anthrax—was caused by bacteria, we are more enlightened. We know that Yersinia pestis was the probable cause of ...

pestis. He probably contracted the Hib infection first, Guellil and colleagues say. While respiratory infections rarely leave marks, the boy’s kneecaps had fused to the thighbones above them.

The cvirus Yersinia pestis, or the bubonic plague, is known for the havoc it wrought in medieval Europe — where the fatal disease wiped out nearly 50million people from 1346 to 1353 in a ...

Disease outbreaks like Black Death and Bubonic Plague caused by Yersinia Pestis bacteria and smallpox caused by the variola virus have killed millions of people. The entire world suffered a fatal ...

Scientists have discovered DNA of the bacterium Yersinia pestis in a mummy from Egypt dated back approximately 3,300 years, confirming the presence of the plague outside Eurasia. This ...

The bubonic plague killed as many as 50 million people across Europe in the 14th century - 50% of its population - in what's ...

The bubonic plague is a deadly bacterial infection, caused by Yersinia pestis ... or pus from swollen lymph nodes to look for the Y. pestis bacteria. If you test positive for bubonic plague ...

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 ...