Scientists discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague, marking the first case of the disease outside Eurasia. De Agostini via Getty Images Scientists ...

Scientists have warned that an antibiotic-resistant strain of the bubonic plague could emerge and are developing a vaccine for the disease that has killed as many as 200 million people throughout ...

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 ...

COVID jab scientists are developing a Black Death vaccine over fears the disease could re-emerge and kill millions.

Scientists who developed the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine during the Covid pandemic are developing the UK's first bubonic plague amid fears an outbreak of the disease could re-emerge. The plague ...

Scientists behind the Oxford Covid jab are developing a bubonic plague vaccine amid fears a superbug strain of the Black Death could emerge. There is no vaccine in the UK for the plague ...

Scientist who introduced the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine during the covid pandemic are now working on the UK's first bubonic plague jab, as fears for the next deadly outbreak rise. The Black Death ...

An Egyptian mummy, over 3,000 years old, may have died from the bubonic plague, providing the first genetic evidence of the disease outside the Eurasian continent, new research shows. The finding ...

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pestis, implying the victim endured an advanced stage of the plague before dying. “This is the first reported prehistoric Y. pestis genome outside Eurasia, providing molecular evidence for the ...

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 ...