Officials are tracking a possible pneumonic plague exposure in Russia. Here's what experts say about the risk and what the disease is.

A large Yersinia outbreak in France caused by raw milk cheese has prompted scientists to highlight the risks associated with unpasteurized dairy products. In March 2024, French surveillance of ...

Researchers at the Pasteur Institut in France have developed a genomic analysis method for classifying and identifying Yersinia strains and estimating pathogenicity. The Yersinia genus covers a range ...

Since the catastrophic pandemics of the Middle Ages, one disease has almost proverbially symbolized contagion and death: the plague. It is now known that the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis has been ...

When an unexpected respiratory illness strikes near a high-security pathogen facility, global alarm bells tend to ring – especially when that lab handles dangerous historical diseases.

EPA’s Selected Analytical Methods for Environmental Remediation and Recovery (SAM) lists these guidelines for detection and viability assessment of Yersinia pestis in solid, particulate, aerosol, ...

The latest tests conducted by anthropologists in Germany have proven that the bacteria Yersinia pestis was indeed the causative agent behind the "Black Death" that raged across Europe in the Middle ...

A mysterious form of plague that spread across Eurasia thousands of years before the Black Death has finally revealed a crucial clue. Scientists analyzing ancient DNA discovered the bacterium Yersinia ...