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

Plague affects humans and other mammals. Usually, people get the plague after being bitten by a rodent flea carrying Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes the disease, or by handling an ...

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 ...

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.

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 Yersinia pestis bacterium causes both bubonic plague, a form of the disease you get from a flea or rat bite, and pneumonic plague, a respiratory infection you get by inhaling the bacteria.

A surface protease helps Yersinia pestis plow its way through the body ... still extensive debate on the subject of exactly how the bacterium infected individuals, it appears to have involved ...

Cause of London Great Plague confirmed Plague traced back to Bronze Age The plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, was responsible for several major historic pandemics, including the infamous Black ...

is caused by a bacterium called Yersinia pestis which is spread by fleas on rodents. Up to 2,000 cases of the disease are still reported worldwide every year. The bacteria can also be spread when sick ...

Scientists identified three cases of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria causing the plague, in human remains - two in a mass burial in Somerset, and one in a ring cairn monument in Cumbria. The team ...