A vaccine for the bubonic plague is currently in development as the potential risk of a pandemic remains. To date, there is ...

Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict, terrible natural disaster, climate change, rebellion ...

Scientists discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague, marking the first case of the disease outside Eurasia. De Agostini via Getty Images Scientists ...

The finding supports the theory that the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa long before it spread as a major pandemic in the Middle Ages. Previously, experts had speculated about the ...

Although the bubonic plague is most often associated with its deadly impact on 14th century Europe, traces of Yersinia pestis have also been found in skeletons found in modern-day Russia dating as ...

Scientists behind the Oxford Covid jab are developing a bubonic plague vaccine amid fears a superbug strain of the Black Death could emerge. There is no vaccine in the UK for the plague ...

pestis, implying the victim endured an advanced stage of the plague before dying. “This is the first reported prehistoric Y. pestis genome outside Eurasia, providing molecular evidence for the ...

An Egyptian mummy, over 3,000 years old, may have died from the bubonic plague, providing the first genetic evidence of the disease outside the Eurasian continent, new research shows. The finding ...

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Archaeologists in Italy have found one of the oldest known cases of the bubonic plague, which has caused millions of deaths in the past. According to Daily Mail, experts have discovered the virus ...

pestis evolved and varied between its time in ancient Egypt, the Middle Ages and the modern day. Black Death mystery SOLVED: Bubonic plague outbreak originated in Kyrgyzstan in 1338 and spread ...