Described as a 'nationally significant' discovery, experts think the bodies were buried at the first half of 17th century following a ruthless wave of the disease. The bubonic plague is spread by ...

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Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout ... People in different parts of the world credited one or the other with the discovery, depending which journals they had read.

The DNA of Yersinia pestis bacteria has been found in a Bronze Age sheep, offering a clue to how the plague may have spread through prehistoric farming communities ...

The 14th-century global outbreak of bubonic plague, known as the Black Death ... with plague immunity—and possibly with autoimmune conditions—that have yet to be discovered. “I’m wondering how many ...

Bubonic plague is believed to have arrived in the ... the work of Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch in the 1800s that it was discovered germs are the cause of disease. The plague bacteria was finally ...

In the 1890s, following the discovery of the plague pathogen, the Russian government established a research laboratory at Fort Alexander to study plague and develop vaccines. Renovated with ...

Well, believe it or not, the plague is still around. Blame fleas and the rats, mice, chipmunks, and squirrels they infect. Bubonic plague is caused by bacteria that live in fleas. If you get bit ...

As it advances, however, the dreaded bubonic plague causes painful swellings (buboes) in the lymph nodes. Septicemic plague infects the bloodstream. Pneumonic plague, which can be passed from ...

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 ...