Plague feels like a disease of the distant past but the cause, a bacterium called Yersinia pestis, was not identified ... central Africa and Madagascar, with small outbreaks occurring in north ...

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 ...

Researchers have uncovered the oldest confirmed case of the plague outside Eurasia in an ancient Egyptian mummy.

An over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague marks the first case of the disease outside the ...

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 ...

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

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

See, the plague was actually caused by a bacterium called Yersinia pestis, spread by infected ... the Democratic Republic of Congo and Madagascar. However outbreaks have been small.

Now, a groundbreaking genomic study published in Nature introduces a chilling possibility: an ancient plague pandemic. Yersinia pestis – the bacterium behind the infamous Black Death – may ...

the bubonic plague. Infamously dangerous to humans, the Yersinia pestis infection first rose to infamy when it caused widespread death and devastation across Europe. However, its presence on the ...