Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but potentially more transmissible ...

What was hygiene like during the Black Death? In the 14th century, the bubonic plague swept through Europe, wiping out as ...

But the earliest known bubonic plague outbreak — the Plague of Justinian — took hold in the Mediterranean Basin and lasted from AD 541 to AD 544.

But the earliest known bubonic plague outbreak — the Plague of Justinian — took hold in the Mediterranean Basin and lasted from AD 541 to AD 544.

Scientists from the Institut Pasteur and McMaster University have discovered that the evolution of a gene in the bacterium responsible for bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, may have prolonged the ...

But the earliest known bubonic plague outbreak — the Plague of Justinian — took hold in the Mediterranean Basin and lasted from AD 541 to AD 544. Another plague outbreak emerged in China in ...

Today, the bubonic plague is considered a rare disease, though a small number of cases still emerge in western North America, Africa, Asia, and South America, according to the Cleveland Clinic.

But the earliest known bubonic plague outbreak — the Plague of Justinian — took hold in the Mediterranean Basin and lasted from AD 541 to AD 544.

But the earliest known bubonic plague outbreak — the Plague of Justinian — took hold in the Mediterranean Basin and lasted from AD 541 to AD 544.

The next day, he was officially diagnosed with bubonic plague. Payne, who was quickly quarantined along with four family members, survived his brush with the black death but others were not so lucky.