This flea died 20 million years ago ... may be a very early version of the Black Death. We know what Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that modern scientists believe caused the Black Death, does ...

Scientists may have found the oldest-ever evidence of the bubonic plague, locked away in an ancient flea trapped in amber. In a study published this month in the Journal of Medical Entomology ...

A microscopic discovery may soon offer a peak into prehistoric pestilence– a possible ancestor of the Black Death has been discovered on a fossilized flea. The flea, who bit it about 20 million ...

2. Over the Speed Limit Dr. Duncan and Dr. Scott argue that the breakneck rate that the Black Death tore across Europe could not be sustained by a flea-borne plague. The Black Death spread about ...

"Since the dried droplet with bacteria is still attached to the tip of the proboscis, the flea may have become entrapped in resin shortly after it had fed on an infected animal," George Poinar Jr ...

The bubonic plague bacterium then infects a new victim, and the flea eventually dies from starvation. " Source: Wikipedia Gross, I know. But the original plague, the Black Death, has never returned.

About 20 million years ago a single flea became entombed in amber with ... Periodic waves of what was called the Black Death, for the gruesome condition in which it left its victims, swept through ...

A flea preserved in amber for a staggering 20 million years may contain the oldest strain of the Black Death, which wiped out half the European population in the 14th century. If the tiny insect ...

But the disease—nicknamed the “Black Death ... applying flea control products to pets, to reduce the risk of infection. Today, however, most plague cases don’t result in death because ...

Rats and fleas The Black Death just doesn't appear to have behaved the way the typical, modern rat-associated plague does, according to Gage, the flea expert. Even so, he says he is convinced that ...

A 20-million-year-old flea preserved in amber carries what may be an ancestor of the pathogen that caused one of the world's deadliest plagues, the Black Death, according to a study. Researchers ...