So here’s all you need to know about bubonic plague. Caused by a bacteria called Yersinia pestis, plague is an infectious disease usually found on small animals and transmitted through fleas or ...

According to a study published in February 2025 titled “Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage,” the Black Death ...

The bubonic plague is a deadly bacterial infection, caused by Yersinia pestis. In the 14th century, before treatment was available, bubonic plague killed 50 million people in Europe and became ...

“This is why this is a major paper—because it really locates in time and in space, the origin of this major diversity of Yersinia pestis.” The findings don’t show exactly how the bacterium spread from ...

Reports of the infection—including one death this month—recently shook up social media. But, unlike COVID-19, plague is a disease that countries have more or less got under control. A series of rodent ...

It can also refer to one specific disease, Yersinia pestis. On top of that, a plague can refer to a large number of insects or animals in one place that are causing a lot of damage, like the ...