Washington State University pathologists confirmed a rare case of plague in a mule deer found blind and emaciated in Idaho.

Pathologists at Washington State University have confirmed a rare case of the plague in a mule deer found in Idaho, according ...

Washington State University pathologists have confirmed a rare case of plague in a mule deer found blind and emaciated in ...

Plague affects humans and other mammals. Usually, people get the plague after being bitten by a rodent flea carrying Yersinia ...

From a disease that humans had over 9,000 years ago to one that wiped out millions of people — these serious diseases still ...

It is now known that the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis has been present in Central and Northern Europe for more than 5,000 years. However, it is still uncertain whether it also led to pandemics ...

Testing confirmed the plague was, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, occurs naturally in the western United States and ...

pestis. He probably contracted the Hib infection first, Guellil and colleagues say. While respiratory infections rarely leave marks, the boy’s kneecaps had fused to the thighbones above them.

Yet the highly infectious disease borne of the bacterium Yersinia pestis still persists. From 1,000 to 3,000 cases of plague are reported each year globally, 10 to 15 of them in the western United ...

The pandemic from the Eurasian Steppe in the sixth century wreaked havoc in the final days of the Roman Empire. The outbreak ...

Plague feels like a disease of the distant past but the cause, a bacterium called Yersinia pestis, was not identified until 1894 and it has never gone away. In the late 20th and early 21st Century ...

But what you're referring to in the 1340s, the black plague of Europe, which killed a third of Western Europe's population and was probably caused by Yersinia pestis, the etiologic agent of ...