In 1347, the Black Death first arrived in the Mediterranean via trade ships carrying goods from the territories of the Golden ...

Plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The bubonic and septicemic forms — mainly infecting the lymph nodes and ...

A pit of human bones, potential evidence of a catastrophic epidemic that struck Constantinople in 541 A.D. Sulfur deposits ...

In seven of the samples, alongside the human DNA, geneticists found the DNA of an early form of Yersinia pestis—the plague microbe that killed roughly half of all Europeans in the 14th century.

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 ...

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 ...

Plague feels like a disease of the distant past but the cause, a bacterium called Yersinia pestis, was not identified until 1894 and it has never gone away. In the late 20th and early 21st Century ...

Tapeworms: Dogs can get tapeworms if they swallow flea-carrying tapeworm larvae during grooming. Yersinia pestis: In rare situations, fleas can spread Yersinia pestis, the bacteria behind the bubonic ...

They weaponized anthrax. They weaponized smallpox. They weaponized Yersinia pestis or plague. They weaponized Marburg virus. They grew it to high concentrations in guinea pigs. Now, it takes a lot ...

Tuberculosis, for instance, became airborne at some point. When the bacterium that causes plague, Yersinia pestis, became adapted to fleas, it could be spread by rats, which would not care about ...

See, the plague was actually caused by a bacterium called Yersinia pestis, spread by infected fleas and transported worldwide by rats. And the plague itself? Well, it never actually went away.

Dumitriu is known for art pieces that incorporate deadly pathogens, including her “Plague Dress,” which features the bacteria Yersinia pestis — responsible for transmitting the plague — bacteria ...