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A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive for centuries.

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(CNN) — One of the bleakest periods in medieval Europe was the plague pandemic known as the Black Death, which killed at least 25 million people in just five years. But the disease didn’t stop ...

One of the bleakest periods in medieval Europe was the plague pandemic known as the Black Death, which killed at least 25 million people in just five years. But the disease didn’t stop there.

The bacterium Yersinia pestis caused the Black Death — killing up to 50 million people in the mid-fourteenth century — as well as an earlier plague across the Mediterranean in the sixth ...