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

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USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins announced her department will distribute $14.5 million in reimbursements to state-run meat and ...

A new mosquito-related health scare is making headlines in the United Kingdom, and it's raising alarms far beyond British ...

One of the world’s oldest diseases has an even more complex history than expected. Research out today reveals that a form of ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent. Scientists reveal that a recently identified second ...

The bacteria that cause the plague evolved to become less deadly over time, allowing it to continue infecting people in three ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of time ...

Alterations to a single gene in the plague bacterium's genome have shed light on a method the germ has used to survive and ...