In the Middle Ages, a plague killed a third of Europe's population. Fleas carried the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, ...
Scientists discover Bronze Age plague DNA in 4,000-year-old sheep remains, shedding light on how ancient diseases spread ...
A plague that swept through Eurasia for 2,000 years – millennia before the Black Death of the Middle Ages – has only ever been detected in human remains, until now. For decades, it has been unclear ...
Archivist Lucie Hobson explains how charters held at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth help us understand what ...
In the United States' Northern Arizona, a patient has died from a severe strain of the plague, revealed public health officials in a statement on Friday (Jul 11). As per Northern Arizona Healthcare ...