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 ...

Explore the complete guide to the plague—bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic. Learn symptoms, causes, history, treatments, and ...

Researchers discovered that the absence of one critical gene made the plague less virulent, and may have allowed two major pandemics to last longer.

Also known as the Black Death, the bubonic plague is one of history’s most infamous diseases in history. It is spread when humans are bitten by fleas that piggyback on rodents When the microbes ...

Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death.Video above ...

It eventually led to the second plague pandemic–the Black Death in the 14th century. The Black Death is still the deadliest pandemic in recorded human history, killing 30 to 50 percent of the ...

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

Alterations to a single gene in the plague bacterium's genome have shed light on a method the germ has used to survive and ...