Bubonic plague infects the lymph nodes, septicemic plague is in the blood, and pneumonic plague affects the lungs. Yersinia pestis itself is a bacterium with some deep historical roots and has ...

IN 1900, a Sydney wharfie who had been removing rats from his toilet died of the bubonic plague ... transmitted infection which afflicts the lymph nodes, causing swelling in armpits and groin.

A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive for centuries.

The bubonic plague “is an infectious disease caused ... nausea and extreme pain and swelling of lymph nodes, occurring within two to seven days after exposure. Plague can be effectively treated ...

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

The Black Death, which killed as many as 50% of affected populations in Western Asia, Africa, | Genetics And Genomics ...

Plague’s most common form is bubonic plague, which causes painful swelling in lymph nodes and spreads among people through bites from fleas hitchhiking on infected rats. An outbreak of bubonic ...

(CNN) — One of the bleakest periods in medieval Europe was the plague pandemic known as the Black Death, which killed at least 25 million people in just five years. But the disease didn’t stop ...