Yet the highly infectious disease borne of the bacterium Yersinia pestis still persists ... has first feasted on an infected rodent. Initial symptoms — sudden fever, headache, muscle pain ...

This was caused by a bacteria, Yersinia pestis, that first hit Europe in the ... known as the Justinian plague. The symptoms of the plague were awful. It started with a swelling in the lymph ...

But what are the symptoms people should be looking out for, how is the plague transmitted, and is there a cure? Bubonic ...

The research team were able to find the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, in three of them ... The name comes from the symptoms it causes - painful, swollen lymph nodes or 'buboes' in the ...

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 ...