Untreated bubonic plague can turn into the more serious pneumonic plague, which causes rapidly developing pneumonia after bacteria spread to the lungs. Is there a vaccine for the plague?

Bubonic plague targets your lymph nodes, which are located throughout your body. They are round clusters of immune cells that fight off invading microbes. When plague bacteria enter your system ...

So here’s all you need to know about bubonic plague. Caused by a bacteria called Yersinia pestis, plague is an infectious disease usually found on small animals and transmitted through fleas or ...

Blame fleas and the rats, mice, chipmunks, and squirrels they infect. Bubonic plague is caused by bacteria that live in fleas. If you get bit, you can get it, too. You can even get it from a ...

At present, scientists are trying to infect such resistant cells with bubonic plague bacteria to test the hypothesis that the mutation in the CCR-5 receptor gene could have thwarted the plague in ...

Whereas in bubonic plague Pla plays a key role in escape from the initial site of delivery in the dermis, pla mutants show a different phenotype when delivered intranasally. The bacteria are ...

A HUMAN case of bubonic plague in the UK has been confirmed as a false alarm following a mix-up with official data. The horror bug that previously wiped out half of Europe in the Black Death is ...

"… [N]ever send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." Poet John Donne wrote these lines in his "Meditation XVII" as the feared Black Death ravaged ...

it would transmit bubonic plague. Pneumonic plague was spread from one person to another through coughing or sneezing which spread air droplets containing plague bacteria, affecting the victim's ...

What makes the case unique: Before this case, this weakened strain of plague bacteria had never caused infections in humans. As such, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ...

The UK recently experienced a bubonic plague scare due to a mistakenly reported ... The Black Plague is an illness caused by Yersinia pestis bacteria. This microorganism can spread between animals ...