A landmark discovery by teams from two Florida universities has unearthed one of history's greatest mysteries — what caused the Plague of Justinian. It killed up to 50 million people in the sixth ...

Scientists have discovered how adaptations in a single gene helped the plague survive for hundreds of years. Responsible for the deadliest pandemic in history, the bacterium that causes the plague, ...

For the first time, researchers have uncovered direct genomic evidence of the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian — the world’s first recorded pandemic — in the Eastern Mediterranean, where the ...

According to the Cleveland Clinic, there are three types of plague. Which type that you have depends on where in your body Yersinia pestis ends up. Bubonic plague infects the lymph nodes, septicemic ...

The Black Death was one of the most infamous pandemic events in history. It spread across Asia and Europe, decimating a third of the continent’s population during the Middle Ages. The cause was plague ...

Bubonic plague has caused the deadliest pandemic in history: The Black Death, which killed as many as 50% of affected populations in Western Asia, Africa, and Europe. After that, in the 14th century, ...

The bacteria that cause the plague evolved to be less deadly over time, allowing it to infect people in 3 separate pandemics ...

TAMPA, Fla. (August 27, 2025) — For the first time, researchers have uncovered direct genomic evidence of the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian — the world’s first recorded pandemic — in the ...

Plague is one of the deadliest diseases in human history, second only to smallpox. A bacterial infection found mainly in rodents and associated fleas, plague readily leaps to humans in close contact.

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 ...