"It was remarkable to discover a domesticated sheep from the Bronze Age that was infected with LNBA plague. This gave us an ...

Drancourt, Michel, Michel Signoli, La Vu Dang, Bruno Bizot, Véronique Roux, Stéfan Tzortzis, and Didier Raoult. 2007. "Yersinia pestis Orientalis in Remains of Ancient Plague Patients." Emerging ...

In England, the plague took on the name Black Death, because of the characteristic spots that started under the skin as a deep red and turned black. As fleas reappeared each spring, so did the ...

The plague that struck Europe in the middle of ... seventies that medicine fully concluded that infectious diseases were caused by the spread of microbes by Robert Koch in Germany, Louis Pasteur ...

As no one knew exactly what caused the Black Death, they could do little to stop future outbreaks. There were further Black Death cases throughout the Middle Ages and beyond. There was another ...

It's a widely known problem with roots in urban legend: Devices with motherboards failing in the early 2000s with a sudden ...

A human case of bubonic plague in the UK has been confirmed as a false alarm following a mix-up with official data, but ...

For he believes it is bad air, called ‘miasma’, that has caused the plague to ravage the port of Leith once again. But, although he didn’t know it, George’s true protection was his leather ...