The skeletons of nomadic families unearthed in Siberia harbor "Yersinia pestis" bacteria, which challenges theories about conditions needed for the disease to spread ...

Since the catastrophic pandemics of the Middle Ages, one disease has almost proverbially symbolized contagion and death: the plague. It is now known that the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis has been ...

Israeli researchers have developed a new vaccine that is “100% effective” against bacteria that is deadly to humans. The announcement came from Tel Aviv University, which teamed up with the Israel ...

Yersinia bacteria cause a variety of human and animal diseases, the most notorious being the plague, caused by Yersinia pestis. A relative, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, causes gastrointestinal illness ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Co-lead study author Ravneet Sidhu examines a human tooth at McMaster University's Ancient DNA Centre in Hamilton, Ontario. The ...

A wild rat in New Mexico tested positive for the plague after four dogs were diagnosed with the troubling disease earlier ...

Bubonic plague is an infectious disease that causes swollen, painful lymph nodes. It caused the deaths of more than 25 million people in the 14th century. The disease still occurs in many parts of the ...

Pathogens are becoming more and more resistant to antibiotics. With the goal of developing new therapeutic approaches to treat bacterial infections more effectively in the future, researchers at the ...