A Mongolian couple has died of the bubonic plague after eating raw marmot kidney, triggering a quarantine that left tourists stranded in a remote region for days, officials said Monday.
May 6, 2019
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Immune systems are working overtime as winter approaches. Stomach flu can turn the strongest individual into a bedridden convalescent. Viruses are spreading in kindergartens. This year's flu is approaching in full swing. ...
Dec 11, 2018
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A team of researchers has now engineered a virus nanoparticle vaccine against Bacillus anthracis and Yersinia pestis, tier 1 agents that pose serious threats to national security of the United States.
Oct 16, 2018
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A team of scientists led by Stony Brook University researchers have discovered a new mechanism for a bacterial toxin to inhibit inflammation. Their research shows that a toxin in Yersinia pestis, the bacterial agent of plague, ...
Sep 16, 2016
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(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers working on studying the remains of victims of the Great Plague of London have for the first time identified the strain of the bacteria that was responsible for killing nearly a quarter ...
Researchers at SUNY Downstate Medical Center have identified and mapped areas of high probability of plague bacteria in the western United States.
Dec 28, 2015
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An unusually high number of cases of human plague have been recorded by US health authorities since April—11 in all, with three of them fatal, officials said Tuesday.
Aug 25, 2015
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For decades, scientists have thought the bacteria that cause the bubonic plague hijack host cells at the site of a fleabite and are then taken to the lymph nodes, where the bacteria multiply and trigger severe disease. But ...
Feb 12, 2015
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Cedar Mitchell, a senior at Northern Arizona University, is traveling to Madagascar in January to work with scientists using NAU technology to better understand origins of that country's recent plague outbreaks. Yersinia ...
Nov 4, 2014
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Northwestern Medicine scientists are continuing to unravel the molecular changes that underlie one of the world's deadliest and most infamous respiratory infections.
Apr 14, 2014
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