In that environment, diseases could quickly spread. The first recorded pandemic caused by Yersinia pestis was the Plague of Justinian from 541 to 549 A.D. It killed nearly a fifth of the city of ...

The bubonic plague is a deadly bacterial infection, caused by Yersinia pestis. In the 14th century, before treatment was available, bubonic plague killed 50 million people in Europe and became ...

The plague sounds like something out of a history book. But the disease—nicknamed the “Black Death” or “Great ...

It can also refer to one specific disease, Yersinia pestis. On top of that, a plague can refer to a large number of insects or animals in one place that are causing a lot of damage, like the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Reports of the infection—including one death this month—recently shook up social media. But, unlike COVID-19, plague is a disease that countries have more or less got under control. A series of rodent ...

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Genetic testing of people who died in Kyrgyzstan eight years before plague reached Europe reveals an ancient strain of the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Reports of the infection—including one death this ...