Lice may have helped spread 'black death' plague. June 3, 2024 9:37 AM ET. Ari Daniel ... The results were clear — the plague bacteria found their way into the louse’s gut.

The bubonic plague wiped out tens of millions of people in Europe in the 14th century — gaining the grim label the Black Death.In 2024, a handful of cases arise each year in the United States ...

In the 14th century, a terrifying disease dubbed the “Black Death” swept through Europe. Spread by fleas, it devastated the continent and killed nearly half the population. But the plague’s ...

A small genetic change makes the bacterium that caused the plague less fatal but possibly more transmissible, allowing for greater disease spread in smaller populations, a study in Science reports.

Yersinia pestis continued infecting people in three separate pandemics over more than a thousand years. Read more at ...

The CDC reports that there were 67 confirmed cases of plague in Colorado between 1970 and 2022. The World Health Organization documented 3,248 instances of the human plague worldwide between 2010 ...

A new plague case is a reminder: The 'Black Death' lingers in the US When Colorado officials confirmed this week that a person had been infected with bubonic plague, they sprung into action with ...

An over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague marks the first case of the disease outside the Eurasian continent.

Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death.Video above: How did ...

During the Black Death, Dr. Barreiro and his colleagues found, natural selection favored the working version of ERAP2. To better understand why, they mixed Yersinia bacteria with immune cells from ...

Black Death Plague That Killed Millions Became Less Fatal because of This Genetic Tweak. ... When the bacteria were injected beneath the skin to mimic the form of plague that affects lymph nodes, ...

A fluorescent image of a human body louse with Yersinia pestis infection — that's the cause of the plague — depicted in orange/red in the glands. The plague — which in the mid-14th century ...