Black Death: A Clue to Where the Plague Originated - The New York Times
WEBJun 15, 2022 · What was known as the Black Death — named after black spots that appeared on victims’ bodies — is caused by a bacterium, Yersinia pestis, that is carried by fleas that live on rodents.
The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe Ever | History Today
WEBMar 3, 2005 · The Black Death was an epidemic of bubonic plague, a disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis that circulates among wild rodents where they live in great numbers and density. Such an area is called a ‘plague focus’ or a ‘plague reservoir’.
The Plague Never Went Away: What to Know | TIME
WEBJuly 10, 2024 6:00 AM EDT. T he plague sounds like something out of a history book. But the disease—nicknamed the “Black Death” or “Great Pestilence”—that killed more than 25 million people,...
Did the ‘Black Death’ Really Kill Half of ... - The New York Times
WEBFeb 10, 2022 · The “Black Death” is one of the most notorious pandemics in historical memory, with many experts estimating that it killed roughly 50 million Europeans, the majority of people across the...
Ancient DNA offers clues as to where and when Black Death began - NPR
WEBJun 30, 2022 · New research, published this month in the journal Nature, provides biological evidence that places the ancestral origins of Black Death in Central Asia, in what is now modern-day Kyrgyzstan.
Black Death 700 years ago affects your health now - BBC
WEBOct 19, 2022 · The Black Death is one of the most significant, deadliest and bleakest moments in human history. It is estimated that up to 200 million people died. Researchers suspected an event of such...
The source of the Black Death in fourteenth-century central Eurasia
WEBJun 15, 2022 · The Black Death, caused by the bacterium Y. pestis 10, was the initial wave of a nearly 500-year-long pandemic termed the second plague pandemic and is one of the largest infectious disease ...
How the Black Death got its start - Nature
WEBJun 15, 2022 · The Black Death was the most deadly outbreak of any disease in recorded history. Between 1347 and 1353, it devastated the populations of Eurasia and North Africa, and it’s estimated that ...
Ancient DNA traces origin of Black Death - Nature
WEBJun 15, 2022 · Krause suspects that humans’ close contact with infected marmots sparked the Kyrgyzstan epidemic, whereas immunologically naive rat populations in Europe fuelled the Black Death.
Origins of plague could have emerged centuries before outbreaks, …
WEBJan 20, 2023 · CNN — In the largest DNA analysis of its kind, scientists have found evidence to suggest that historic plague pandemics, such as the Black Death, were not caused by newly evolved strains of...