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Human case of bubonic plague confirmed in the United States

A human case of the bubonic plague, often referred to as the Black Death, has been confirmed in Pueblo County, Colorado.
The Economist

The terrifying threat of a genetically engineered plague

Antibiotics help at first, but then activate virus genes engineered into the bacterium. That virus attacks your nervous ...
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Finally, Two New Vaccines Show 100% Effectiveness Against The Plague in Mice

Illustration of Y. pestis, the bacteria that causes the plague. (KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GETTY IMAGES) When people ...

Plague Vaccines Protect Mice Without Immune Defense Scientists Thought Essential

UTMB researchers developed plague vaccines that protected mice without interferon-gamma, challenging a long-held view of ...

Experimental plague vaccine strategy protects mice with missing key immune defenses

The plague has killed more people than World War II. The bacterium Yersinia pestis (Yp), which causes plague, has triggered ...
New York Post

What is bubonic plague? How it’s treated and recent cases

The bubonic plague, which is caused by a bacterial infection, was chillingly known as “Black Death” when it wiped out some 50 million people across Africa, Asia and Europe in the Middle Ages. Its dark ...

Medieval plague survivors left us graffiti, court records and a lesson for COVID

The outbreak of plague in 1346-53, known as the Black Death, was one of the worst pandemics in recorded history. Between a third and two thirds of the medieval European population are thought to have ...
CNN

Origins of plague could have emerged centuries before outbreaks, new study suggests

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