Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but potentially more ...

As the plague's death toll increased and people continued to be struck down by the disease throughout Europe and entire families were being wiped out, plague doctors began to get desperate and ...

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

A small genetic change makes the bacterium that caused the plague less fatal but possibly more transmissible, allowing for ...

Today, plague can be cured with antibiotics ... Despite the terrible death toll, in which an estimated 60 percent of Europe’s population died, the Black Death did lead to some positive social ...

Bubonic plague is still found in scattered locations ... But in the early 1300s, a strain of the bacteria exploded into Europe as the Black Death. It is thought to have originated in villages ...

The bubonic plague has cropped up in Oregon for the ... % to 50% of the population in parts of Europe, with an estimated death toll of at least 50 million. And they know that it spreads through ...