Yersinia pestis: The Plague Yersinia pestis is possibly the deadliest pathogen the world has ever seen. Y. pestis has caused three pandemics of plague throughout history and could very well cause more in the future. The first time plague emerged, under the name of Justinian Plague, it appeared in Constantinople of the Roman Empire during the rule of […]
Emerging infectious diseases are infections that have recently appeared within a population or those whose incidence or geographic range is rapidly increasing or threatens to increase in the near future1 Emerging and re-emerging diseases are an increasingly more important and pressing issue in the world today. Zoonotic infections are one source of these emerging and […]
Plague: a widespread disease resulting in a high rate of death1 Before the time of established civilizations and booming societies, humans lived as hunter-gatherers roaming the land in small groups. The nomadic lifestyle of the time meant that there were fewer children (as they would have to be carried) and that groups were small, but […]