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 ...

Usually transmitted by fleas hitching a ride on rodents, the bubonic plague attacks the lymphatic system, and initially results in flu-like symptoms a few days after infection. From there, things ...

Symptoms of the killer disease included horrific ... Both samples came back with yersinia pestis - the Black Death. It is the first discovery of the disease outside of medieval Europe and Asia.

The Yersinia pestis infection is infamous for causing ... If untreated it could spread to the blood and lungs. Other symptoms included fever, vomiting and chills. Physicians relied on treatments ...

The cvirus Yersinia pestis, or the bubonic plague ... develop acute febrile disease with other non-specific systemic symptoms — like sudden onset fever, chills, head and body aches, weakness ...

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

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 ...

Other symptoms include fever, vomiting, chills, seizures, vomiting blood, internal bleeding, and death. The presence of Yersinia pestis DNA in the mummy indicates that the disease had progressed ...

More than 700 years since the Black Death pandemic, scientists are developing a bubonic plague jab – but why? And should we ...

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 ...