Oxford team reports hopeful results in trials as military experts say UK should stock supplies of Black Death inoculation ...

FOR most, mention of the Black Death probably conjures up medieval images of people dying horrifically in the street. Caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, the bubonic plague has killed ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Although the bubonic plague is most often associated with its deadly impact on 14th century Europe, traces of Yersinia pestis have also been found in skeletons found in modern-day Russia dating as ...

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 ...