"It was remarkable to discover a domesticated sheep from the Bronze Age that was infected with LNBA plague. This gave us an ...

The small yellow rods seen resting on these purple blades are Yersinia pestis bacteria – the cause of bubonic plague. This bacterial infection is mainly spread to humans by fleas but can also be ...

View Full Profile. 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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have uncovered a 4,000-year-old ancestor of the Black Death in the remains of a Bronze Age sheep, shedding light ...

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 ...

Fleas are one of the best-known groups of parasitic insect due to their notoriety as pests and their medical and veterinary importance as vectors of disease, such as the plague, myxomatosis and murine ...

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 ...

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 ...

Caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which is often transmitted by fleas and passed through small animals like rodents or ...