After almost two years of infrequent trips outside our homes and social distancing, our immune systems are readjusting to pre-pandemic levels of interaction and, by default, to daily pathogen ...

The new research about the Black Death was published earlier this month Getty Scientists suggest in a new study that the Black Death may have been triggered by one or more volcanic eruptions The ...

According to the Cleveland Clinic, there are three types of plague. Which type that you have depends on where in your body Yersinia pestis ends up. Bubonic plague infects the lymph nodes, septicemic ...

Researchers tell ‘human story’ about crisis during plague of Justinian, which killed millions in Byzantine empire ...

Bubonic plague has caused the deadliest pandemic in history: The Black Death, which killed as many as 50% of affected populations in Western Asia, Africa, and Europe. After that, in the 14th century, ...

The bacteria that cause the plague evolved to become less deadly over time, allowing it to continue infecting people in three separate pandemics over more than a thousand years, new research said ...

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Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...

Follow scientists as they track down the earliest known bubonic plague victims in hopes of preventing future outbreaks, while historians and scholars explore the societal impact of the plague on ...

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