(NEXSTAR) — Northern Arizona recently recorded its first pneumonic plague-related death since 2007. Early last year, Oregon saw its first case of the bubonic plague since 2015. Person-to-person spread ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plague DNA was recovered from an adolescent boy and girl found in the same grave in Siberia. - Vladimiri Bazaliiskii Ancient DNA ...

The oldest-known traces of plague, around 5,500 years old, have been discovered in hunter-gatherer burials in Siberia. Found at one of four ancient burial sites, the discovery predates the previous ...

IN 2011 A team of geneticists managed to recover centuries-old DNA from the teeth of bodies that had been buried in East Smithfield, a medieval cemetery in London. Besides human DNA, they were able to ...

Plague swept through groups of hunter-gatherers in southeastern Siberia 5,500 years ago, leaving dozens dead in its wake—with DNA from Yersinia pestis bacteria still trapped inside their teeth.

Ancient DNA recovered from cemeteries in southeast Siberia has revealed previously unknown strains of plague that had a deadly impact on an unexpected group of people 5,500 years ago. The early plague ...