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 ...
Two articles report the first direct genomic evidence that Yersinia pestis caused the Plague of Justinian and together revised views on how pandemics arise, recur, and spread, reported El Comercio.
The find definitively links the pathogen to the Justinian Plague marking the first pandemic (AD 541–750), resolving one of history's long-standing mysteries. For centuries, historians have deliberated ...
A landmark discovery by teams from two Florida universities has unearthed one of history's greatest mysteries — what caused the Plague of Justinian. It killed up to 50 million people in the sixth ...
Scientists have finally uncovered direct genetic evidence of Yersinia pestis — the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian — in a mass grave in Jerash, Jordan. This long-sought discovery resolves a ...
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 ...
A new study has found direct genetic evidence pointing to the cause of the devastating "Plague of Justinian" first described nearly 1,500 years ago. Reports of the disease first came around 541 CE in ...
Researchers studying the teeth of two 1,500-year-old German victims of the Justinian plague have uncovered tiny bits of DNA that link the ancient disease to the deadly plague of just a few centuries ...
The Black Death was one of the most infamous pandemic events in history. It spread across Asia and Europe, decimating a third of the continent’s population during the Middle Ages. The cause was plague ...
Plague is one of the deadliest diseases in human history, second only to smallpox. A bacterial infection found mainly in rodents and associated fleas, plague readily leaps to humans in close contact.
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