"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...
Along with the skeletons, the archaeologists found silver ... The bubonic plague or black death is the most commonly occurring plague. It is spread by fleas that carry the bacterium Yersinia ...
The Black Death peaked in Europe between 1348 and 1350, wiping out about 60 percent of London’s population. According to genome analysis comparing the ancient sample and a recent outbreak in ...