http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—From the several pandemics generally called 'pestilences' three are historically recognized as due to plague, but only for the third pandemic of the 19th-21st centuries AD there were microbiological evidences that the causing agent was the bacterium Yersinia pestis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-scientists-justinianic-plague-bacterium-yersinia.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 10 May 2013 07:00:01 EST news287387106 Today archaeologists unearthed a 'Black Death' grave in London, containing more than a dozen skeletons of people suspected to have died from the plague. The victims are thought to have died during the 14th century and archaeologists anticipate finding many more as they excavate the site. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-paper-plague.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:27:58 EST news282569266 (AP)—An Oregon man who nearly died from the plague in June has now lost his withered fingers and toes to the disease known as the Black Death. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-oregon-plague-victim-fingers-toes.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:55:17 EST news267267311 (AP)—Oregon health officials say a woman who tried to help her friend save the life of a choking cat also contracted the plague from the disease-stricken feline. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-lab-woman-plague-cat.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 15 Sep 2012 04:52:05 EST news266903452 In his 30-plus years as a doctor, Bruce Tempest had never seen anything like it. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-cases-hantavirus-mystery.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:50:01 EST news266666279 (HealthDay)—When Sierra Jane Downing's fever shot up to 107 degrees and she suffered a seizure, her parents knew their 7-year-old daughter had more than the flu. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-plague.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:40:01 EST news266238470 (AP)—The parents of 7-year-old Sierra Jane Downing thought she had the flu when she felt sick days after camping in southwest Colorado. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-year-old-colo-girl-recovers-bubonic.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:48:45 EST news266082470 (HealthDay) -- Although the plague is typically considered a remnant of the Middle Ages, when unsanitary conditions and rodent infestations prevailed amid the squalor of poverty, this rare but deadly disease appears to be spreading through wealthier communities in New Mexico, researchers report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-plague-rare-surfacing-affluent-areas.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:34:13 EST news258829959 Hardly anyone succumbs to the bubonic plague these days, but US health authorities on Friday approved a new treatment for it and other forms of the potentially deadly bacterial infection. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-treatment-ancient-plague.html Medications Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:15:15 EST news254765073 Researchers are exploring the dynamics of plague in the wild in Kazakhstan to understand where it is and what is happening when it seems to disappear. The aim is to develop a cost-effective and accurate early warning system for when human outbreaks might be imminent. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-plague-kazakhstan.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:06:19 EST news250851971 Among medical mysteries baffling many infectious disease experts is exactly how the deadly pneumonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, goes undetected in the first few day of lung infection, often until it's too late for medical treatment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-lungs-infected-plague-bacteria-playgrounds.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:00:06 EST news247146038 Researchers from the Smiley lab at the Trudeau Institute have now identified a single component of the plague causing bacterium that can be used as a vaccine. This single "subunit" could potentially be used to create a safer form of a T cell-stimulating plague vaccine. The new data is featured in the July issue of The Journal of Immunology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-discovery-plague-bacterial-pneumonias.html Medical research Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:30:22 EST news228389412