Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before ...

"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

2007. "Yersinia pestis Orientalis in Remains of Ancient Plague Patients." Emerging Infectious Diseases 13 (2): 332–33. Garrelt, Christina, and Ingrid Wiechmann. 2003. "Detection of Yersinia pestis DNA ...

On Thursday, the Associated Press reported that mice carrying Yersinia pestis ? the bacteria that cause bubonic plague -- had disappeared from a laboratory at the Public Health Research Institute, ...

Genetic testing of people who died in Kyrgyzstan eight years before plague reached Europe reveals an ancient strain of the bacterium Yersinia pestis. In the foothills of the Tian Shan mountains in ...

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 ...