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.

A new scientific discovery has uncovered secrets of the Black Death plague that is thought to have killed tens of millions ...

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 ...

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

the Black Death would spread across Europe, eventually even arriving in Scotland. The ruins of a caravan stop on the old Silk Route in Kyrgyzstan. The Silk Routes were a network of tracks and ...

perhaps passing through fleas from infected marmots into people before then spreading to Europe along the Silk Road trade route. The Black Death is thought to have killed about 50 million ...

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 ...