To plague aficionados, the Justinian Plague ... of a study published this week in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases. But they warned there is a lesson in the fact that a strain of plague ...

In the case of the plague of Justinian, it seems to have been helped by environmental factors. If climate change, volcanic eruptions, and dust veils can hasten the spread of disease, we probably ...

Researchers discovered that the absence of one critical gene made the plague less virulent, and may have allowed two major ...

After an initial period of high infection rates and rapid mortality — killing infected people within three days — changes to ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to ...

The disease typically started with a fever ... and a pandemic that began with the Plague of Justinian, from about C.E. 541 to 549, and ultimately lasted until C.E. 766. Study co-author Kyle ...

Yersinia pestis continued infecting people in three separate pandemics over more than a thousand years. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The disease re-emerged in several waves over ... Strains of the original Justinian plague went extinct after 300 years of wreaking havoc on European and Middle Eastern populations.

Plague is an infectious disease that can affect mammals ... An earlier major plague pandemic, dubbed the Justinian plague, started in Rome around 541 and continued to erupt for the next couple ...

Strains of the Justinian plague became extinct after 300 years ... had decreased in later outbreaks of the disease, which in turn decreased its mortality by 20 per cent and increased the length ...

the Plague of Justinian — named for the Byzantine emperor who caught the disease but survived — deepened the social and economic collapse of western Europe and claimed the lives of 30 million ...