Israeli researchers have developed a new vaccine that is “100% effective” against bacteria that is deadly to humans. The announcement came from Tel Aviv University, which teamed up with the Israel ...

The skeletons of nomadic families unearthed in Siberia harbor "Yersinia pestis" bacteria, which challenges theories about conditions needed for the disease to spread ...

The bacteria that cause the plague evolved to become less deadly over time, allowing it to continue infecting people in three separate pandemics over more than a thousand years, new research said ...

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Scientists have long debated whether human body lice might have helped drive the rapid spread of the bacteria responsible for the deadly plague in the Middle Ages, known as the Black Death. It’s clear ...

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The Black Death is a deadly plague that struck Europe and Asia in the 1300s. Eventually, it killed over 50 million people ...

Scientists have discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague — marking the first case of the disease outside of the Eurasian continent. The breakthrough ...

Plague swept through groups of hunter-gatherers in southeastern Siberia 5,500 years ago, leaving dozens dead in its wake—with DNA from Yersinia pestis bacteria still trapped inside their teeth.

A wild rat in New Mexico tested positive for the plague after four dogs were diagnosed with the troubling disease earlier ...

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