A surface protease helps Yersinia pestis plow its way through the body during pneumonic plague. During the 14th through 16th centuries, Y. pestis caused a pandemic of plague that killed a third of ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released an updated Manual for Plague Surveillance, Diagnosis, Prevention, and ...

Whether intentional or not, the way mega-settlements in southeastern Europe from 6,000 years ago were laid out would have cut ...

In the third episode of Biolore, we explore how scientists are using cutting-edge genetic sequencing to uncover the mysteries ...

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 ...

Many horrific catastrophes have rocked the world and shaped history forever. However, some of these events were apparently ...

Plague affects humans and other mammals. Usually, people get the plague after being bitten by a rodent flea carrying Yersinia ...

The county’s health department had launched an investigation into a potential human case last Friday after preliminary tests ...

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.

Construction on the Trường Sa Museum project will begin by the end of the year, according to an announcement from Chief of ...

Unless, of course, anyone tries to skinny dip in the moat. That is strictly forbidden, and violators will be forcefully ...