Buy the 1630s, Europe was no stranger to plagues, and evidence suggests that the bacterium Yersinia pestis has been around on ...

When not diagnosed and not treated with proper antibiotics in a timely fashion, a Yersinia pestis infection can still kill. And unfortunately, that’s apparently what happened to a 10-year-old ...

The team from the Francis Crick Institute in London has found three ancient British cases of Yersinia pestis -- the bacteria that causes the plague -- in skeleton samples of two children and one ...

Madagascar is one of the last places where outbreaks of human bubonic plague still happen regularly. Fleas carrying the ...

Yersinia pestis overcomes host defense, in a large part, by debilitating phagocytes. Live-attenuated Y. pestis vaccines protect against pneumonic plague, probably by generating both protective ...

The bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, has been responsible for some of the most devastating pandemics in history, including the Black Death, which killed more than half of ...

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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 ...

(Since 1970 the bacillus has been known as Yersinia pestis.) That the plague had an identifiable "germ" was known. But other recent findings had not been disseminated -- or believed. Most people ...

Getting to know about interesting and intriguing things from the past improves our knowledge power and also leaves a small amount of curiosity to know ...

Yersinia pestis overcomes host defense, in a large part, by debilitating phagocytes. Live-attenuated Y. pestis vaccines protect against pneumonic plague, probably by generating both protective ...