New research by geneticists hints at the deadly work of Yersinia pestis 5,000 years ago. By Franz Lidz At the end of the ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released an updated Manual for Plague Surveillance, Diagnosis, Prevention, and ...

pestis. For instance, rather than traveling from an insect bite to the lymph nodes, the bacteria can enter the body through other routes and cause an entirely different set of symptoms. Bubonic plague ...

In 1347, the Black Death first arrived in the Mediterranean via trade ships carrying goods from the territories of the Golden ...

Radiocarbon dating confirmed that the body is around 900 years old, and previous studies suggested it was a man aged 30-40 ...

Unless, of course, anyone tries to skinny dip in the moat. That is strictly forbidden, and violators will be forcefully ...

But to be effective, disrepute must be plausible. What credibility did the suspicions behind the “pestis manufacta” have? The answer is quite simple. The scientific explanations of epidemics ...

Tuberculosis, for instance, became airborne at some point. When the bacterium that causes plague, Yersinia pestis, became adapted to fleas, it could be spread by rats, which would not care about ...

Melondy Phillips Staff Writer The world seems to be getting stranger, dar-ker and more difficult these days, leaving many to ...

In my research focused on early farmers of Europe, I have often wondered about a curious pattern through time: Farmers lived ...

The time has come to dispel these medieval myths, rumors, and mysteries. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down ...

Contributing Writer for The Prospect Lily Hutcheson reflects on her fall break in London for a freshman seminar.