Technically known as the virus Yersinia pestis, the bubonic plague is known for the havoc ... the new find marks the first discovery of the disease outside Eurasia. The infected mummy provides ...

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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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...