Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but potentially more ...

Now, scientists believe they have pinpointed the origin of the Black Death to a region of present day Kyrgyzstan called Issyk-Kul, once a stopover on the Silk Road trade route in the 14th century.

"Our finding that the Black Death originated in Central Asia in the ... The Silk Road was an overland route for caravans carrying a panoply of goods back and forth from China through the sumptuous ...

It's a disease we associate with medieval times, when it was known as the "Black Death", but fears are growing that an outbreak of bubonic plague could be the next global pandemic. With that fear ...

The classical route of infection for this disease ... If you were to think of the Black Death as a movie, “this is introducing a new protagonist right into that story — the body louse ...

In the 14th century, the Black Death broke out along the Silk Road, the trade route between modern China and Europe, killing about 50 million people in Europe, more than a quarter of the ...

A new study reveals that the Black Death lacked the environmental factors and spread too quickly to have been caused by rats.