Researchers have raised questions about the threat Yersinia enterocolitica poses to public health. The study, involving the Quadram Institute, University of East Anglia, and the UK Health Security ...

French officials have reported findings from a check of pork products for Yersinia and two outbreaks caused by contaminated raw milk cheese. Yersinia enterocolitica is one of the top agents reported ...

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 ...

Two articles report the first direct genomic evidence that Yersinia pestis caused the Plague of Justinian and together revised views on how pandemics arise, recur, and spread, reported El Comercio.

Researchers have found 4,000 year-old plague DNA in Britain, the oldest evidence of the disease in the country. Francis Crick Institute scientists identified three cases of Yersinia pestis, the ...

(CBS/AP) Using DNA taken from centuries-old skeletons, scientists have cracked the genetic code of the bacterium that caused the Black Death, one of history's worst plagues. They found that the germ, ...

Using ancient DNA from eight teeth under Jerash's Roman hippodrome, scientists date the outbreak to mid-6th–early 7th century, finding nearly identical strains from a fast, deadly wave. Two articles ...