A person in Arizona recently died of pneumonic plague—a rare and severe form of the disease. An expert explains how the ...

October 1347 -- a fleet of 12 ships docked at the Sicilian port of Messina.Aboard these ships, most sailors were dead. And the few left alive on what would later be known as "death ships" were ...

When the Black Death massacred up to 50 percent of the European population in the mid-14th century, it appears to have etched an enduring mark on human genetics, altering the frequency of genes ...

The Black Death killed up to 50% of the Europeans, who likely represented “immunologically naïve populations with little or no prior adaptation to Y. pestis,” the authors continued.

Please use one of the following formats to cite this article in your essay, paper or report: APA. Susan Alex, Shanet. (2022, June 17). Ancient DNA unravels the mystery of the Black Death.

The Black Death also made John of Gaunt, a younger son of Edward III, the richest man in England and the Duke of Lancaster after his father-in-law died in the plague.

One hypothesis for this reduction is that humans were able to evolve genetic adaptations to resist the bacterium. Read more. ... during and after the Black Death in London and Denmark.

The Black Death took place between 1346 and 1353; after this initial devastating wave, ... “Right now it’s a good hypothesis; is it true or not, I don’t know,” he said.

The Black Death—the world's second bubonic plague pandemic—decimated the populations of Asia, the Middle East, and Europe in the 14th century. But there was a silver lining.