Rats and rodents pose significant health risks beyond mere annoyance, transmitting potentially fatal diseases like hantavirus ...

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

The oldest confirmed case of the illness shows the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years before 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 scientific name for the infection, Yersinia pestis, wiped out vast swathes of Europe but this new finding means ...

IN 1900, a Sydney wharfie who had been removing rats from his toilet died of the bubonic plague. A wave of public panic followed. The dreaded outbreak had begun. Delivery driver Arthur Payne ...

The oldest confirmed case of the illness in an ancient Egyptian mummy has shown the bubonic plague was around thousands of ...

A drug addict called Princess on Los Angeles' notorious Skid Row appeared on a popular interview show covered in grim lesions ...

Bubonic plague infects the lymph nodes ... The team believes that when the gene copy number dropped and the infected rats lived longer, the rodents could spread infection farther.

The Black Death, which killed as many as 50% of affected populations in Western Asia, Africa, | Genetics And Genomics ...