Turns out the plague was, er, plaguing humans far earlier than once thought. A study of ancient DNA pulled from human teeth in Asia and Europe finds that the bacteria Yersinia pestis had infected ...

Pneumonic plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, remains a subject of intense scientific scrutiny given its historical impact and potential modern threat. Research has elucidated the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Co-lead study author Ravneet Sidhu examines a human tooth at McMaster University’s Ancient DNA Centre in Hamilton, Ontario. The ...

New research by geneticists hints at the deadly work of Yersinia pestis 5,000 years ago. By Franz Lidz At the end of the Stone Age, some 5,300 years ago, the populations of Scandinavia and northwest ...

A single 4,000-year-old sheep tooth has turned a long-running mystery about an ancient plague into a concrete trail of evidence, revealing how a deadly pathogen moved with people, animals, and trade ...

If you’re not familiar with Yersinia pestis, that’s okay. However, I’m sure you’re familiar with the plague. Does the Black Death ring a bell? The most notable outbreaks of plague are the 6th century ...

For thousands of years, a disease repeatedly struck ancient Eurasia, quickly spreading far and wide. The bite of infected fleas that lived on rats passed on the plague in its most infamous form — the ...

In an extraordinary breakthrough, scientists have traced the deadly bacterium behind the world’s earliest recorded pandemic to its epicentre for the first time. The Justinian Plague, which devastated ...

While studying Yersinia pestis, the bacteria responsible for epidemics of plague such as the Black Death, scientists found a single small genetic change that fundamentally influenced the evolution of ...

Daniel Zimbler receives funding from National Institutes of Health, NIAID Wyndham Lathem receives funding from National Institutes of Health, NIAID. Y. pestis can cause three different forms of plague ...