Plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, is a zoonotic disease that poses significant public health risks, particularly in regions where it is endemic. Understanding the ecology of plague ...

The prairie dog caught in Trap 69 was angry. And who could blame her? After waking up in her burrow on a mid-September ...

For instance, research on the Black Death has shown that the pandemic, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, exerted strong selective pressures on human populations. By analyzing genetic ...

Anthropologist Alice Roberts describes how secrets about diseases can be uncovered from skeletons building workers and ...

T3P-Y058-739 is a genetically modified strain of the bacterium Yersinia enterocolitica that has been modified to prevent it from being pathogenic and to enable it to micro-inject surrounding human ...