"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...

The analysis of the periods in which the testimonies were recorded indicates that the great majority of the analyzed century ...

Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before ...

Plague affects humans and other mammals. Usually, people get the plague after being bitten by a rodent flea carrying Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes the disease, or by handling an ...

Learn about our Editorial Policies. The rodents have long been blamed for spreading the plague, which is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Researchers thought the bacterium would infect fleas ...

The researchers did find a few different bacterial species from genus Bartonella, which can cause disease in humans, but they detected neither the plague bacterium nor the bacteria that can cause ...

The plague bacterium is carried to humans in the bite of a flea that has first feasted on an infected rodent. Initial symptoms — sudden fever, headache, muscle pain, nausea — are ...

Sounds like one for the history books, right? Well, believe it or not, the plague is still around. Blame fleas and the rats, mice, chipmunks, and squirrels they infect. Bubonic plague is caused by ...

In 1897, Japanese physician Masanori Ogata wrote "one should pay attention to insects like fleas for, as the rat becomes cold after death, they leave their host and may transmit the plague virus ...

I have lived in Majorca for the last 13 years. Every now and then we have a plague of fleas, which seem to be especially attracted to me and bite me everywhere. At the moment I have 70 bites all ...

Plague is caused by a bacillus, Pasteurella pestis, whose natural habitat is the rat. Fleas carry it from rats to humans. The disease, called bubonic when it affects the lymph nodes, pneumonic ...

But, although he didn’t know it, George’s true protection was his leather cloak, which was stopping the fleas carrying the plague virus from biting and infecting him, as they had done with so ...