Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before ...

New research suggests that plague was present in the Middle East nearly a century before the Black Death. A new study suggests that plague may have played a role in epidemics as early as the 13th cent ...

Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis, and can be contracted by humans and household animals if proper precautions are not taken. Human-to-human transmission of ...

pestis (bubonic plague) and aerosol transmission of the bacterium through coughing by infected individuals (pneumonic plague). These different forms of disease have very different outcomes.

Bubonic plague, or "the black death," had raged throughout ... In the next few years, information about the plague's causes and transmission would be clarified. In 1894, physician Mary Miles ...

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 ...

Genetic testing of people who died in Kyrgyzstan eight years before plague reached Europe reveals an ancient strain of the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Reports of the infection—including one death this ...

On Thursday, the Associated Press reported that mice carrying Yersinia pestis ? the bacteria that cause bubonic plague -- had disappeared from a laboratory at the Public Health Research Institute, ...

Infection was spread to man through bites from rat fleas, causing deadly bubonic plague and a highly contagious strain of pneumonia. Mr Simpson said the bacterium responsible - Yersinia pestis - which ...