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

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 ...

A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive for centuries.

The three major plague pandemics are among the deadliest ... The single deadliest pandemic in recorded history, the Black Death killed approximately 25 million people in Europe alone — between ...

Yersinia pestis continued infecting people in three separate pandemics over more than a thousand years. Read more at ...

In a world where innovation was sweeping across Europe, the British Isles chose a path of solitude, crafting a unique legacy ...

The third bubonic plague pandemic broke out in China in the ... The plague bacteria have a particular importance in the history of humanity, so it's important to know how these outbreaks spread ...

The oldest confirmed case of the illness shows the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years before the ...

Strains of the Justinian plague became extinct after 300 years of ravaging European and Middle Eastern populations. Strains of the second pandemic emerged from infected rodent populations, causing the ...

The first wave of this second pandemic, known as the "Black Death," remains to this day the deadliest event in human history, killing 30 to 50% of European populations between 1347 and 1352. The third ...

The Black Death remains the single deadliest pandemic in recorded ... “Although our research sheds light on an interesting pattern in the evolutionary history of plague, the majority of strains which ...