Plague transmission may have begun a century before the Black Death, study shows
Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before ...
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What is bubonic plague? Cat blamed for infecting owner with deadly disease that killed millions
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 ...
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Scientists Just Discovered The First Known Case Of The Plague In A 5,000-Year-Old Skeleton
"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...
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On This Day in 1900, the Bubonic Plague Hit the Continental United States, Spiraling Into an Epidemic That Killed 119 People
On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...
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Black Death Likely Originated in Central Asia
Genetic testing of people who died in Kyrgyzstan eight years before plague reached Europe reveals an ancient strain of the bacterium Yersinia pestis. In the foothills of the Tian Shan mountains in ...
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History of the Plague
2007. "Yersinia pestis Orientalis in Remains of Ancient Plague Patients." Emerging Infectious Diseases 13 (2): 332–33. Garrelt, Christina, and Ingrid Wiechmann. 2003. "Detection of Yersinia pestis DNA ...