Plague Bacterium

For days, the dusty roads of a small town in Mongolia's westernmost province were largely deserted. "After the quarantine was announced, not many people - even locals - were in the streets for fear of catching the disease," Sebastian Pique, an American Peace Corps volunteer who has lived in the remote mountainous region for two years, told the Agen...

A genome analysis of the plague bacterium revealed how a single entry of the bacterium into Europe was responsible for the Black Plague of the mid-14th century before becoming the source for modern day epidemics around the globe.

A series of tests have confirmed that the disease outbreak in areas of Himachal Pradesh is plague. Plague is an infection caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. This organism is carried by rats and other rodents and spread by the bite of a flea (Xenopsylla cheopsis) or ingestion of the faeces of fleas through contaminated food. In ...

For days, the dusty roads of a small town in Mongolia's westernmost province were largely deserted. "After the quarantine was announced, not many people - even locals - were in the streets for fear of catching the disease," Sebastian Pique, an American Peace Corps volunteer who has lived in the remote mountainous region for two years, told the Agen...

A genome analysis of the plague bacterium revealed how a single entry of the bacterium into Europe was responsible for the Black Plague of the mid-14th century before becoming the source for modern day epidemics around the globe.

A series of tests have confirmed that the disease outbreak in areas of Himachal Pradesh is plague. Plague is an infection caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. This organism is carried by rats and other rodents and spread by the bite of a flea (Xenopsylla cheopsis) or ingestion of the faeces of fleas through contaminated food. In ...