New Mexico has the highest rate of human plague cases in the US with 254 diagnoses since 1970, according to the Center for ...

Great Plague of Marseille 1720-1723 Yersinia pestis (Bubonic Plague) 100,000+ France (Marseille) Great Plague of London ...

Plague of Justinian, where in the Byzantine Empire this happened under Emperor Justinian I, was due to the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The plague killed 25-50 million and up to 10% of the world's ...

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The end is never really the end. Lizzie Wade’s Apocalypse reveals how humanity has long turned catastrophe into ...

The Yersinia pestis bacterium, spread by fleas on rats, caused the Black Death pandemic, killing over 25 million people in 14th-century Europe and triggering major social and economic changes.

“Even more troubling, rats are frequently hosts to fleas and ticks, which themselves are capable of spreading historically deadly infections like Yersinia pestis—the bacteria responsible for ...

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For a historian with an interest in the intersection of factors that propel an epidemic, 2020 offered a living case study. Edna Bonhomme, a historian of science with a PhD from Princeton, was ...