A scientist who was working on plague-causing bacteria caught the disease despite using weakened strains that were deemed ...

Yet the highly infectious disease borne of the bacterium Yersinia pestis still persists. From 1,000 to 3,000 cases of plague are reported each year globally, 10 to 15 of them in the western United ...

The bubonic plague is a deadly bacterial infection, caused by Yersinia pestis ... or pus from swollen lymph nodes to look for the Y. pestis bacteria. If you test positive for bubonic plague ...

Genetic testing of people who died in Kyrgyzstan eight years before plague reached Europe reveals an ancient strain of the bacterium Yersinia pestis. In the foothills of the Tian Shan mountains in ...

A surface protease helps Yersinia pestis plow its way through the body ... still extensive debate on the subject of exactly how the bacterium infected individuals, it appears to have involved ...

This was caused by a bacteria, Yersinia pestis, that first hit Europe in the 1340s. People still disagree over where it came from, but the most common theory is that it first emerged in Asia ...

The bacteria behind the plague, Yersinia pestis, has been intensively studied using ancient DNA, with almost 200 genomes reconstructed from traces found in human remains. Yet we know much less ...

Plague is caused by the Yersinia pestis bacteria, which are typically spread via flea bites. The disease primarily affects rodents, but humans bitten by an infected flea can also become infected.

pestis was considered noninfectious, the patient had somehow contracted it, they confirmed. What makes the case unique: Before this case, this weakened strain of plague bacteria had never caused ...