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

A team tested the ancient mummy dating back more than 3,000 years and discovered the bubonic plague in his bone tissue and ...

AN EERIE Egyptian mummy who died a horror death has revealed to scientists an unbelievable Black Death secret. It is believed ...

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

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

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 ...

Samples of 'The Black Death', which wiped out 50 million people in medieval times, were found in an Egyptian mummy ...

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

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 ...

Plague is a potentially lethal infectious disease that is caused by bacteria called Yersinia pestis that live in ... The name comes from the symptoms it causes - painful, swollen lymph nodes ...