On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...

Yet the highly infectious disease borne of the bacterium Yersinia pestis still persists. From 1,000 to 3,000 cases of plague are reported ... Initial symptoms — sudden fever, headache, muscle ...

There is a Yersinia pestis vaccine ... “If anyone develops symptoms consistent with the plague — usually the initial symptoms are fever, chills and swollen lymph node — then seek medical ...

It is now known that the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis ... Whether the early forms of Yersinia pestis caused symptoms as ...

It's caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which is carried by rodents ... and sometimes with other medical measures. Plague symptoms can manifest in a few ways. Bubonic plague — the kind ...

Plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, is a zoonotic disease that poses significant public health risks, particularly in regions where it is endemic. Understanding the ecology of plague ...

A surface protease helps Yersinia pestis plow its way through the body during pneumonic plague. During the 14th through 16th centuries, Y. pestis caused a pandemic of plague that killed a third of ...

This was caused by a bacteria, Yersinia pestis, that first hit Europe in ... known as the Justinian plague. The symptoms of the plague were awful. It started with a swelling in the lymph nodes ...

Yersinia pestis is spread when fleas drink ... infected would die from bubonic plague. Pneumonic plague affects the lungs. Its main symptoms are fever, aches and coughing, including coughing ...

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 ...

We currently lack a safe, effective and licensed vaccine for pneumonic plague, which is nearly always fatal and has been weaponized. Yersinia pestis overcomes host defense, in a large part ...